By Whom? SMPTE Us

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - 3:41 pm

Originally published in Videography November 2003 Believe it or not, SMPTE really works only as a first-person pronoun. An announcement from Amsterdam in September stunned the computer world. Microsoft, notorious […]  More

Minding the Store

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Saturday, October 4, 2003 - 3:58 pm

Originally published in Videography October 2003 Video storage is one of the least considered aspects of videography, but that’s now changing. Here’s a trick question: Which came first, the video […]  More

How and Wide

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 3:20 pm

Originally published in Videography September 2003 Widescreen is the future of videography. So why is this blurb oriented vertically on this page? The first thing to remember is that shape […]  More

We Were Shafted

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Monday, August 4, 2003 - 3:46 pm

Originally published in Videography August 2003 In John Logie Baird’s time, videography was crude but simple.  Now what? Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe, liquid-crystal and plasma TVs, Miami Vice […]  More

Three Centuries of Television

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Friday, July 4, 2003 - 4:43 pm

Originally published in Videography July 2003 Did you see the latest technology at a recent trade show?  Might it have been developed in the 19th century? Panasonic and Sony introduced […]  More

The Time Machine

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Friday, April 4, 2003 - 4:25 pm

Originally published in Videography magazine, April 2003 Disks offer many advantages.  So why do we still use tape-based camcorders? What do the Marx Brothers and John Lennon’s widow have to […]  More

Ideal or "I Deal"?

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Tuesday, February 4, 2003 - 4:27 pm

Originally published in Videography February 2003 Will television entertainment be destroyed without digital-rights management?  Similar predictions were made in 1976. CBS has been pushing high-definition television (HDTV) for more than […]  More

Anatal Digilog

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Monday, November 4, 2002 - 3:28 pm

Originally published in Videography November 2002 It is said that we are now in the digital era. But the solid-state imaging chips of “all-digital” cameras are actually analog devices. On […]  More

It Will Be Converted

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Monday, March 4, 2002 - 4:11 pm

Originally published in Videography March 2002 If you shoot HDTV, one thing is pretty much guaranteed.  Whatever your show looks like, someone will change it. The world of moving imagery […]  More

The Other Tech

By Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe | Monday, February 4, 2002 - 4:18 pm

Originally published in Videography February 2002 The biggest differences between film and video or movies and television may have nothing to do with technology — and everything to do with […]  More