The Masked Engineer

You might not have noticed, but… disruptors aren’t just for Klingons any more

Mario was chatting with a dog-walking buddy one day recently, when said buddy advanced the opinion that nobody watches broadcast television, or apparently cable television, anymore.

You might not have noticed, but... your production gear ain’t what it used to be.

You might not have noticed, but there is a ginormous amount of pressure being applied to broadcasters to auction off their spectrum and consolidate their signals on fewer RF channels.

While we've been getting fatter and slower, video recorders have been getting faster and smaller

The rap is that innovation is no longer happening in the teevees and stereos that members of the Consumer Electronics Association are flogging

A lot of you were left at the altar when the latest version, Final Cut Pro X, broke the mold, as well as the entire commercial workflow.

Two mainstream, trusted camera-makers with a host of choices between them. Big sensors abound, and you're the winner

Let's have a brief review of the "ownership" of the aforementioned television broadcast spectrum, why don't we?

I'll bet dollars to donuts you aren't watching.

Digital video and audio don't "degrade gracefully," as their analog counterparts do.

Not too long ago my ol' buddy Engineer Hank sat at the top of the mountain. Today, Hank's in the basement

It's about A) the ability to make the audio comply with specific laws and specifications; and B) to make it sound nice.

You may not have noticed, but I’m a pretty spiritual character. And I’ve just returned from a retreat.

It appears that the Commish doesn’t much care about broadcasting anymore.

Big is good… small is not to be trusted, except, of course, when small rules the day, and big is a liability.

Moore's Law has been working over the decades, and individual transistors have gotten really, really small.