The Masked Engineer

You might not have noticed, but… reliability don’t come cheap.

You might not have noticed that Feb. 17 is going to be a good day to celebrate TV technology. But it ain't a day most of us are going to have to do anything different with that there technology.

Look, there's only one legitimate reason to go to the big show each April. It's to get away from the office and maybe play a little golf in the desert sun.

Maybe there's a method to that madness—something TV broadcasters, regulators and legislators might want to take note of.

Those LCD displays, I've got to admit, are a problem, but LCDs are getting faster all the time, and they ain't the only display technology in town.

You might not have noticed that there's a wee mite of a difference between Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City television market.

YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE NOTICED that Congress doesn't write all the laws. Nature has come up with a few. Last time I checked, the Second Law of Thermodynamics didn't appear in the Federal Code.