The Masked Engineer

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

This ain’t (exactly) about the transition to DTV.

You might not have noticed that it's been seven-and-a-half years since the U.S. digital television rules came out. Here are some of the reasons why you might not have noticed:

You might not have noticed that not everything that everyone agrees on is correct.

TV technology ain’t brain surgery. TV technology ain’t rocket science. TV technology is all about illusions.

You might not have noticed, but my last blather was about a lack of labels on TVs. So on account of inertia being my favorite state, I decided to stay with the label theme in this here column.

Yeesh! It's tough enough covering 100 square miles of exhibits in four days and wading through 100,000 Applets hogging the Apple booth without having to deal with NAB's booth numbers.