ANTHONY R. GARGANO

Welcome to yet another installment of what I refer to as Broadcast Engineering's Andy Rooney segment. It's fun to be given the final page of this great

3-D TV is overhyped and not ready for prime time — yet.

Video capture tools get curiouser and curiouser.

Displays have gone from small to large and back again

In May of this year, I joined about 30,000 others from around the world to converge in, of all places, Dayton, OH. Why would so many people from all around

Are you ready for active format descriptor (AFD)? Or maybe you're already sending it with your content. You should be. AFD codes will play a significantly

Is it really that old? Actually, it is. That oft-used phrase referring to necessity as the mother of invention has its derivation in Book 2 of Plato's

We are days away from completing the long journey to the promise of DTV. Originally, the great analog switch-off was never planned to be such. The initiative

Someday history will probably reflect the late 20th and early 21st centuries as the era of the Digital Revolution. And, certainly the life-changing consequences

From time to time, the world of advertising hits a home run by producing memorable television commercials with catchy sayings that eventually join the

For a while, it appeared the Mobile DTV Pavilion at this year's NAB show was, in reality, a geocache. In order to find it, it seemed one needed to sign

Put the financial geniuses in charge of the asylum, and they will invariably come up with the worst of ideas that favor short-term, bottom-line results.

It is a presidential election year the quadrennial event that all broadcasters look forward to with great relish. For many broadcasters, it is their version

The event offered demonstrations of a variety of advanced technologies, as well as glimpses of the future.

The world of high tech, it seems, is always rife with buzz words, and certainly broadcast is no exception. One of the buzz words we hear today constantly

An electrical problem has shut down Amtrak and closed the northeast corridor tracks into New York. Those were the words I heard one morning at 5 a.m.

The history of entertainment media is rife with portents of gloom upon the advent of the next newest entertainment delivery technology. Sixty years ago,

One wonders if there is anything at all in Washington that isn't broken. Dysfunctional government has dropped the American public's approval rating of

Countries, and the robustness of their economies, rise and fall on the basis of fiscal policies. All too often, those policies are dictated by the latest

When it comes to 3-D, there is nothing new under the sun

In the February 2010 edition of Broadcast Engineering, I wrote a column about nontraditional tools for use in broadcast and production applications. One