Randy Hoffner

What is the relationship between resolving power, screen resolution and viewing distance from the screen?

Audio-video synchronization has been one of the major casualities of the DTV era. The industry has become well-aware of this problem.

Going digital has solved a number of the technical problems we had in the analog television era, but it has generated a few of its own.

One of the opportunities created by the digitalization of television is the ability of digital media and transports to carry metadata in addition to video and audio.

One thing that television and the movies have in common is that both portray motion by capturing and displaying a series of still pictures, albeit in very different ways.

Principal shortcomings, we will recall, include narrow viewing angles and slow response times. Let's look at how one shortcoming is being addressed.

A lot of television technology has come and gone since 1985, and we will take a quick look at some of the high points in those two decades.

The 2K chip, as its name implies, has 2,048 horizontal mirrors and 1,080 vertical rows or lines, which permits mapping 1920 x 1080 HD images directly onto the pixel array

As might be expected, there are some differences between U.S. HDTV and European HDTV.

BTSC brought us television stereo and other sound services, and in the process, it spelled the end of the big TV set with the tiny little loudspeaker.

Reading the recent World Trade Center remembrances from my colleague on these pages, Peter Prunty, brought to mind my own memories of One World Trade Center – the North Tower.

Throughput delay, commonly referred to as latency, is an inescapable consequence of using digital audio and video technologies.

Previously, we have taken a look at how cesium clocks, the most-accurate time and frequency references available to us, work.

Let's talk about silicon—semiconductors, that is.

To understand H.265, let's look at a little MPEG history, to see where it came from

The book by Susan J. Douglas is part of the “Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology” series.

Or could it be the next Teletext?