Paul McGoldrick

I always seem to be harping about video, but what's happening in the world of audio? Are we, in fact, making any progress for the future of what we hear

It seems that whatever the FCC says about 8-VSB and COFDM, the issue is not going away.

Different cable systems will not necessarily be able to bring their receivers with them. Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects

When I read analysts' reports, I often wonder if we've visited the same company. Having a title like Industry Watcher gives me an inherent right, I believe,

A lot of people opened Christmas packages last month to the requisite oohs and aahs and found the latest generation of electronics staring back at them.

As a young broadcast engineer I was encouraged to join SMPTE because it represented the American face of television engineering to us very remote guys

As we look around the broadcast industry, we see a number of dominant suppliers who control the vast majority of the dollars that are spent. But whether

Putting labels on things is a way to identify what the objects are; applying labels to tell you what things might become is at best confusing - and, at

Don't you just hate it when some-one reneges on a deal? It doesn't matter whether it is a small thing like meeting for lunch or a big thing like a job

Lawmakers' ability to write bills with inexactitudes leaves wiggle room for everybody. My education must have been fairly violent compared to those of

There are many things that parents are fearful about when it comes to their children. The worst is when you fear for them physically — in road traffic accidents or criminal activity like kidnapping.

Making massive changes in technology is not easy on consumers.

We have gone through some really silly corporate name changes that have thrown away branding efforts. Putting brand marks on products is as old as the

Professionals out there now say that it is a bad idea to name a business after yourself because you may, among other reasons, end up selling your name with the company down the road.

So, we have passed the magic date when our nation's DTV rollout was supposed to be complete, and we are a quarter of the way there in terms of the number of stations on-air.

The industry has changed in a way that many of the larger box vendors do not understand and have not accepted

Those of us who remember the advent of color television and were part of the industry at the time can easily recall some of the early panics, illusions and general silliness

Swag is an odd word. It can mean a drooping piece of fabric. It can also mean moving unsteadily and being out of control. When used as a noun, however,

No one person can understand the whole gamut of the industry — perhaps because it is clearly no longer a single industry

In the history of television, broadcasters have always led development both with their own internal research and development and by persuading manufacturers

I visited a semiconductor manufacturer a short while ago one of many visits I make every year when the manufacturers brief me on what they are up to and