Mario Orazio

TV technology ain’t brain surgery. TV technology ain’t rocket science. TV technology is all about illusions.

You might not have noticed, but my last blather was about a lack of labels on TVs. So on account of inertia being my favorite state, I decided to stay with the label theme in this here column.

Yeesh! It's tough enough covering 100 square miles of exhibits in four days and wading through 100,000 Applets hogging the Apple booth without having to deal with NAB's booth numbers.

How can you possibly keep pace with algebraic leaps in next-great-invention bitrates?

You might not have noticed, but… reliability don’t come cheap.

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

A lot of you were left at the altar when the latest version, Final Cut Pro X, broke the mold, as well as the entire commercial workflow.

While we've been getting fatter and slower, video recorders have been getting faster and smaller

The rap is that innovation is no longer happening in the teevees and stereos that members of the Consumer Electronics Association are flogging

So I’m shoppin’ for accessories for that sweet little helmet-cam I just bought to record all my pie-eating triumphs at the annual Festa San’ Guido.

You might not have noticed, but… I guess I’m not much of a gamblin’ man.

Two mainstream, trusted camera-makers with a host of choices between them. Big sensors abound, and you're the winner

You might not have noticed that HDTV is inevitable. Too bad we don't know where Evitable is.

You might not have noticed that you don't get asked the Two Questions at airline ticket counters anymore. And, if you're like me, maybe you feel a little more secure as a result.

You might not have noticed that people watch television. You might also not have noticed that people tend not to throw money away.

You might not have noticed that DTV stations don't have to simulcast the programming on their NTSC counterparts.

You might not have noticed that Philips has done it again.

You might not have noticed that it's possible to watch lousy NTSC. Hey – I ain't for one second suggesting that you ought to watch lousy NTSC; I'm just saying it's possible.