WSJ.com reports that Comcast, facing a growing threat from online video services, is fighting fire with fire. The country’s largest cable-service provider soon will start testing a new way to deliver its television channels, co-opting the same technology standard that upstart Internet rivals have used to challenge traditional pay-TV business models.
Comcast Tests Tech Overhaul
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Mark's Upcoming Appearances
- February 9, 2012 – “Beyond HD: Resolution, Frame-Rate, and Dynamic Range” A Free Webinar by Mark Schubin
- February 14-17, 2012 – HPA Tech Retreat, Indian Wells, CA
- April 15, 2012 – Alternative-Cinema-Content session at the Technology Summit on Cinema at NAB, Las Vegas, NV
- April 27, 2012 – “The Fandom of the Opera,” NYU-Polytechnic Institute, Pfizer Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY
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3D Helpings
- 3D on a 2D Screen | January 31st, 2012
- MIT Working on Powerful yet Inexpensive 3D Cameras | January 30th, 2012
- LG, Sony Rebuffed In 3D Ad Dispute | January 27th, 2012
- Surgeons Don 3D Glasses, get ‘Remarkable’ Depth Perception for Keyhole Surgery | January 25th, 2012
- A Black Box to Convert Regular HDTV to 3D Coming Soon | January 25th, 2012
- 2D Compatible 3D Broadcasts | January 24th, 2012
- Tech and the Movies: 3D Printing Brings New Angle to Animation | January 23rd, 2012
- 3D Fans Less Likely to Watch Films Converted to 3D | January 23rd, 2012
- Petition Forces M&S To Honor Orders After Pricing Error Puts £1,099 3DTVs On Sale For £199 | January 20th, 2012
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Schubin Snacks
- World Opera Project Needs Help | October 10th, 2011
- Sony OLED Reference Monitors | February 8th, 2011
- Everything Is First! | February 4th, 2011
- 3D vs. HD? | May 12th, 2010
- How Old Is Your Stereographer? | April 12th, 2010
- 3D Brings Science to Showbiz | April 5th, 2010
- Broadcast & Broadband Together | April 2nd, 2010
- 3D Is Wonderful, Except…. | April 1st, 2010
- Cheerleader Says Whoa! | March 25th, 2010
- Consumer Reports already finds differences between 3DTV sets | March 24th, 2010
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Greatest Hits
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Schubin Chronicles
- Chronicles Introduction | August 14th, 2009
- A different anniversary | October 26th, 2002
- Boo, not boom | May 11th, 2002
- Happy Patriots Day! | April 15th, 2002
- The Ideas of March | March 31st, 2002
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Podcasts
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SchubinVision
- Part I – The Fandom of the Opera (2008)
- Part II – Size Matters: The Format Factor and the Optics of HD (2008)
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- The Fandom of the Opera (2011)
- Things You Can or Can’t Fix in Post: Video Acquisition (2010)
- Schubin On The Future Of TV (1997)
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Resources
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Corrections and Elucidations
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News Specials
Edited by Michael Silbergleid- Robert Briskman to Serve as NABA President | February 2nd, 2012
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- 3D on a 2D Screen | January 31st, 2012
- Video: 3D Printed Record Sort of Plays “Still Alive” | January 30th, 2012
- MIT Working on Powerful yet Inexpensive 3D Cameras | January 30th, 2012
- LG, Sony Rebuffed In 3D Ad Dispute | January 27th, 2012
- Inventor Develops On Demand Animation Technology | January 26th, 2012
- Intel Buys Video Technology, Patents From RealNetworks | January 26th, 2012
- Sennheiser Opens Its Technology and Innovation Center in San Francisco: “The Future Made Right Here” | January 26th, 2012
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Downloads
- “The Fandom of the Opera: How Opera Helped Create the Modern Media World” – Library of Congress, Washington, DC, October 6, 2011 | November 1st, 2011
- NAB 2011 Wrapup, Washington, DC SMPTE Section, May 19, 2011 | June 1st, 2011
- Technology Year in Review (HPA 2011 Tech Retreat Presentation #1) | March 1st, 2011
- Alternatives to Two-Lens 3D (HPA 2011 Tech Retreat Presentation #2) | March 1st, 2011
- When Did We Come From? (HPA 2011 Tech Retreat Presentation #3) | March 1st, 2011
- Some Aspects of 3D… in Depth: Single-source Stereo and Microstereoscopic 3D | December 9th, 2010
- More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About 3D | November 18th, 2010
