Monthly Archives: August 2009

Sports, News, Porno, and… Opera?

Written on August 25, 2009 at 11:33 pm, by

Electronic slow motion was invented for sports video. Tapeless camcorders were created for TV news. Pornography made streaming video successful.  But something else that seems to drive media-technology innovation is opera. […]  More

Chronicles Introduction

Written on August 14, 2009 at 5:24 pm, by

Early in September of 2001, my wife was working in Sicily, and I happened to be in New York’s World Trade Center a number of times, returning each evening to […]  More

A Brief History of Height

Written on August 10, 2009 at 5:16 pm, by

Based on the basic questions who, when, where, how, and why, HDTV was invented by NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation), first shown to the public in 1969 […]  More

Podcasts

Written on August 6, 2009 at 11:43 am, by

Schubin Report Podcasts  More

SchubinVision

Written on August 4, 2009 at 10:00 pm, by

Archived videos with Mark Schubin Part I – The Fandom of the Opera (2008) Part II – Size Matters: The Format Factor and the Optics of HD (2008) Mark Schubin […]  More

3-D for the One-Eyed

Written on August 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm, by

Like the earliest movies, early TV was silent.  And the late, great television director Kirk Browning drove an ambulance during World War II.  Believe it or not, this post is […]  More

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