Randy Hoffner

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Audio-video synchronization has been one of the major casualities of the DTV era. The industry has become well-aware of this problem.

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