The Masked Engineer

You might not have noticed, but… these days, things are lookin’ down. Literally.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Lately, broadcast stations have gotten into the multichannel biz in such a big way that it frequently degrades the primary HD signal.