Mario Orazio

You might not have noticed that there's a wee mite of a difference between Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake City television market.

Felicitazioni! The new year is about to begin; your equipment budget’s been planned, and now you’re stressed out about parting company with all that cash.

You might not have noticed, but… some things ain’t worth protectin’.

These days, light-years away from the technologies of my youth, there’s a different gawd-awful, annoying TV buzz: the high-frequency buzz induced by marketers spinning the ATSC 3.0 feature set.

You might not have noticed, but… you might be tracking the wrong trends.

Let's have a brief review of the "ownership" of the aforementioned television broadcast spectrum, why don't we?

Digital video and audio don't "degrade gracefully," as their analog counterparts do.

Lately, broadcast stations have gotten into the multichannel biz in such a big way that it frequently degrades the primary HD signal.

It appears that the Commish doesn’t much care about broadcasting anymore.

It's about A) the ability to make the audio comply with specific laws and specifications; and B) to make it sound nice.

Not too long ago my ol' buddy Engineer Hank sat at the top of the mountain. Today, Hank's in the basement

You may not have noticed, but I’m a pretty spiritual character. And I’ve just returned from a retreat.

You might not have noticed that Snell & Wilcox doesn't yet sell television directors. Yes, this will be another rant-and-rave about mobile TV.

You might not have noticed that the first part of Sherlock Holmes's explanation to Dr. Watson gets ignored.

You might not have noticed that objective measurements have gone the way of NTC-7. I ain’t sure if that’s good or bad, but it surely does leave a big hole in equipment specs.

You might not have noticed that not everything that can be imagined always happens. Yes, I'm ranting this month about new display technologies.

You might not have noticed that the term HDTV doesn't necessarily guarantee quality.

"Time flies." "You can't stop progress." "If you snooze, you lose." Yes, of course I'm ranting this month about the war on piracy.

You might not have noticed that not everyone on TV is fat. Yes, this month's rant is about image shapes. Here's what I mean.