The Masked Engineer

When HDCAM came out, you could count the number of TV stations transmitting HDTV on the fingers of one hand.

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

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

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.

You might not have noticed that not everyone on TV is fat. Yes, this month's rant is about image shapes. Here's what I mean.

You might not have noticed that Snell & Wilcox doesn't yet sell television directors. Yes, this will be another rant-and-rave about mobile TV.

You might not have noticed that the first part of Sherlock Holmes's explanation to Dr. Watson gets ignored.

You might not have noticed that the term HDTV doesn't necessarily guarantee quality.

You might not have noticed that objective measurements have gone the way of NTC-7. I ain’t sure if that’s good or bad, but it surely does leave a big hole in equipment specs.