James O'Neal
Latest articles by James O'Neal
Panasonic, Sony Report Q2 Losses
By James O'Neal published
Recent financial statements issued by electronics giants Panasonic and Sony are still showing lots of red ink.

Protecting Your Facility From Lightning Strikes – Part Two
By James O'Neal published
Broadcast transmitting towers are ideal targets for lightning strikes

Confessions Of A Tall-Tower Worker
By James O'Neal published
Paul Fitts is one of the very few U.S. communications tower workers qualified to handle “tall” tower jobs, a skill that’s now very much in demand due to the on-going spectrum repack.

Charlie Anderson, Who Helped Invent the VTR, Dead at 88
By James O'Neal published
Anderson is remembered for many accomplishments in the field of broadcasting, with the chief among being his work at Ampex in the design of the world’s first successful videotape recorder.

ATSC 3.0 Elements Pass Muster At ‘PlugFest’ Event
By James O'Neal published
The Advanced Television System Committee’s “next gen” digital TV standard, ATSC 3.0, fared very well in the testing of a portion of its attributes here this week.

TV’s Future Placed Under Microscope at IEEE U.K. Summit
By James O'Neal published
Experts in the field of television engineering assembled in this quiet western London suburb for three days last week to prognosticate the direction that the medium may take in the coming years

Remembering John H. Battison (1915-2012)
By James O'Neal published
Word reached us during the last week of August that John Henry Battison had reached the end of his life.

Review: SolderBuddy ACS-V
By James O'Neal published
If you’re not familiar with Lee Tingler’s “SolderBuddy” products, they are a family of rather inexpensive devices designed to assist in the installation of solder-type audio connectors.

Doesn’t Anyone Ever Build Anything Anymore?
By James O'Neal published
Recalling part of what made broadcast engineering fun

NAB Show Product Review: Content Streaming
By James O'Neal published
With OTT now the fastest-growing method for distributing news and entertainment, the technology for streaming was everywhere on the NAB Show exhibit floor.

NAB Show Product Review: Signal Processing
By James O'Neal published
We’ve now arrived at the doorstep of another big era of change in the television industry, ushering in UHD imaging, wider color gamuts, high dynamic range and virtualization.

What Is This ‘Broadcast Quality’ Thing Anyway? Part II
By James O'Neal published
What really defines “broadcast quality” and has such a thing ever really existed?

A Brief History of the NAB Show
By James O'Neal published
Next month, many of us will be heading forLas Vegas and the NAB Show.

Museum Seeks Aid in Getting Vintage VTR to NAB Show
By James O'Neal published
During my first year with TV Technology I had the pleasure of preparing a story commemorating the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the videotape recorder at what is now the NAB Show.
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