The Masked Engineer

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.

You might not have noticed that all television control rooms have monitors of both the picture and sound variety.

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.

When light spreads out due to an edge, the waves charging straight ahead are going to get to a plane a little earlier than the ones taking a diagonal route.

All four major U.S. commercial TV networks are associated with movie distribution studios. Three are associated with theme parks.

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

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