ANTHONY R. GARGANO

Last month, the ATSC announced the elevation of its Draft Document A153, Specification for Mobile Digital Television, to the status of candidate standard.

Having spent the bulk of a career on the equipment supply side of the broadcast industry, I have been through a number of business cycles. One lesson

For years, the mainstay tools of television engineers in stations and facilities all around the country have been the trusty waveform monitor and vectorscope.

What's a broadcast guy doing at a cable show? Spending several days at the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) annual expo in Philadelphia gave

Regarding next February's deadline, it has frequently been written that consumer confusion abounds and that how it may or may not affect the typical TV

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

Have you noticed the abatement in hype surrounding 3-D TV? The question cries out: What has happened to last year's declared breakthrough technology of

Is the broadcast community asleep at the switch? It certainly appears so. H-e-l-l-o-o?! Are you awake out there? Microsoft, Google, the Consumer Electronics

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