So, I’m looking around trying to find something I haven’t seen 12 times on other pages (it’s been a slow week for news items – you can only gush over the same 3 things at the big magazines for so long), and I find something from the long distance echo department (a boyhood euphemism for I sa...

David Rehr head of the NAB just repeated a statement he has made many times."The the most purchased accessory for the iPod is an FM adapter."He says this like it's a good thing for the radio industry. It's a horrible thing for the radio industry, it means people are using the radios in their cars to...

One important vision of the future of video distribution is the concept of making content available to consumers, WIWWIWWIW, "What I want, where I want, when I want." To accomplish this distribution goal, service providers will have to store content in a central location and transcode (pre...

"In the beginning ... God." The first words of the Bible (Gen 1:1) affirm an essential teaching of the Christian faith: Before all else, God is. It's a reality that seems obvious to most Christians, yet many people doubt or deny it. Challenges are often issued to other articles of the Christian fait...

Talk about "Frivolous Lawsuits"... BILLIONS of dollars & the survival of some non-commercial "Local" Radio Stations. The WAR ON MUSIC What is this, the Third Fucking Grade??? From WIRED : The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio b...

Does playing someone’s music on the radio hurt them or help them? And is it a “form of piracy”? I’m a lifelong radio listener. Not like I once was, of course, but I still listen, especially during my morning commute. A couple of weeks ago I happened to hear “The Step an...

David Purcey continues to deal in the IL, Lance Broadway just keeps getting batters out, Mike Hollimon continues smoking the ball, a pair of Tacoma sluggers fuel speculation by not playing, Eric Hurley stretches out his arm against Portland and Emiliio Bonifacio keeps hitting. Check out yesterday...

I have a love/hate relationship with AVCHD. My little Canon HG10 is a hard-drive AVCHD high-definition camcorder. It is small, takes beautiful video, has a nice lens and generally does pretty much everything you could want from a consumer-grade device. What's not to like? The editing workflow. Quite...

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) held their annual convention in Las Vegas this week and, aside from the usual angst about the digital transition next February, there was a moderate buzz about mobile TV. In his opening keynote address, David K. Rehr, president of the NAB, opined about ...

Filed under: Storage Just because Maxell left the disc manufacturing to other rivals doesn't mean that it's bowing out of the external HDD market. Announced this week, the firm has introduced its all new iVDR, which "connects directly through a bi-directional USB or eSATA adapter to a shoulder-mount...