BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
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Is television making you fat?
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
The problem with television is it's too _____ . Maybe you think that television is too liberal, too conservative or too violent. But,
The ultimate remote
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The CEA’s subcommittee is charged with implementing new remote control standards
NBC GETS GOLD
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After you've done something six, going on seven, times, you would think that the process would become easier. For David Mazza, senior vice president of
Bigger is always better
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A recent Best Buy Omnitel survey shows a growing demand by women for input and
The realities of NAB
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By the time you read this, you're either still recovering from NAB or maybe better you didn't go at all. Trust me, it's not the end of the world if you
Note from the editor
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This year's Broadcast Engineering Excellence awards totaled 45?entries. The contest pages posted on our Web site generated more than 23,000 page views!
IBC was great, minus the travel
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After enduring a 22-hour, door-to-door travel time getting home from IBC, I'm ready to endorse children-free airplanes. I was unfortunate enough to encounter
The FCC's DTV trick or treat
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It's that time of year again. Your doorbell rings and when you answer, you're greeted with little costumed munchkins begging for candy and promising tricks
Preaching to the ATSC choir
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One could feel electricity in the air as the crowded room overflowed Monday morning at the mobile TV meeting at the NAB convention. Broadcasters, all
Let TV die
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A May 2011 report titled If a TV station broadcasts in the forest, written by Thomas W. Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University
Content double jeopardy
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Editorial director Brad Dick discusses Adobe Pass, a technology that provides viewers with the content portability and access they demand, and why broadcasters should take note.
Kill the 8-VSB Frankenstein, redux
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Editorial director Brad Dick revisits his prediction about 8-VSB in light of an FCC recommendation that the industry move to adopt COFDM
Mobile TV: broadcast's best-kept secret
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A recent story on the Broadcast Engineering website reviewed Qualcomm's potential decision to sell its video delivery business, FLO TV. Qualcomm's chairman
Please, sir, I want some more
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Looks like America's OTA viewers may soon be repeating Oliver Twist's line from the Charles Dickens classic, begging for more than TV table scraps. The
New product extravaganza
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For four days, 105,000 attendees and more than 1400 exhiits made for an exciting NAB2006
Greedy HDTVs
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The eco-czars’ answer to ever larger TV sets is that they be made more efficient with such federally mandated “features” as sleep modes and require efficiency labels
The sky is falling
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
On Nov. 4, Disney released its animated movie Chicken Little. You recall the original story...
To tell the truth
By BRAD DICK, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR published
Will the real HDTV programming please show up
Outsourcing
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Outsourcing is simply contracting out for non-strategic services, those tasks that aren't part of a company's core business (or expertise).
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