Randy Hoffner

It is still difficult and expensive to manufacture large-screen OLED displays.

These people obviously don’t read my column, do they?

These won't be broadcast or put on cable any time soon, but those in front of SMPTE are intended to be used in digital cinema capture.

Those who have been involved in the television industry for a while might remember that the first HDTV system to be commercialized was the Hi-Vision system.

Perceived loudness, particularly of commercials, has been a problem and a complaint as long as commercial television has been with us.

We interrupt the series that has been running in this column on "ultra resolution," to bring you a message about what's going on in television today.

Currently, 1920x1080 is the HD video scanning format with the highest spatial resolution, but there are efforts underway to change this.

The broadcast station business suddenly seems to be less of a financial sure thing than it used to be.

You may be hearing about the demise of the venerable CRT, which has been the display device used in most of the TV sets we have watched since television became a commercial reality.

Principal shortcomings, we will recall, include narrow viewing angles and slow response times. Let's look at how one shortcoming is being addressed.

Today, it is apparent that the venerable CRT television set that we have been watching since the 1950s is living on borrowed time.

Cable is frequently worse than broadcast for loud commercials and uneven commercial loudness. The worst, of course, is commercially-supported online TV.

Let's talk about silicon—semiconductors, that is.

In the 1950s, the movie studios made major efforts to lure people away from their newfangled TV sets and back into the theaters.

 A/85 addresses the "Anchor Element" and loudness over a specified time interval.

If you have attended any recent tradeshow featuring displays or paid attention to the display press, you will have seen and heard about 1080p displays.

As we celebrate TV Technology's 20th anniversary, it seems the perfect time to take a look back over our collective shoulders and see just how far television technology has come in the past 20 years.