Mario Orazio

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

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

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

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

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 that all television control rooms have monitors of both the picture and sound variety.

You might not have noticed that it’s no longer 1996.

"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 everything that can be imagined always happens. Yes, I'm ranting this month about new display technologies.

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

When HDCAM came out, you could count the number of TV stations transmitting HDTV on the fingers of one hand.

This ain’t (exactly) about the transition to DTV.

Moore's Law has been working over the decades, and individual transistors have gotten really, really small.

Look, there's only one legitimate reason to go to the big show each April. It's to get away from the office and maybe play a little golf in the desert sun.

Maybe there's a method to that madness—something TV broadcasters, regulators and legislators might want to take note of.

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.

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 the term HDTV doesn't necessarily guarantee quality.

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 HDTV can be analog.

You might not have noticed that we live on the third planet from the star in our solar system. I mention this because of the ultra-alien things that have been going on lately in TV-set pricing.

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.