Monthly Archives: August 2009
Sports, News, Porno, and… Opera?
Written on August 25, 2009 at 11:33 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
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 Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
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 Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
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 Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
Schubin Report Podcasts More
SchubinVision
Written on August 4, 2009 at 10:00 pm, by Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
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 Mark Schubin, Contributor, Schubin Cafe
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