Smarty Town
By The Phantom — So, smart cities are all the rage today, huh? Now just what does that mean? I didn’t think cities were animate objects that could have a characteristic like “smart.”
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Remembering TV Technology
By The Phantom — There was an event of significance to our beloved industry that occurred last summer, the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. Heck, we weren’t even haunting the cable TV industry back then.
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What is Wrong With Me?
By The Phantom — I, Phanty, started to say something last time, but ran out of space just as I was getting to the point. Now if I can just remember the point I was trying to make, I’ll continue this month and see if I can make said point.
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Who/What Are We? (Part 2)
By The Phantom — I, Phanty, started to say something last time, but ran out of space just as I was getting to the point. Now if I can just remember the point I was trying to make, I’ll continue this month and see if I can make said point.
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Who/What Are We?
By The Phantom — We’ll warn you up front: we ain’t telling you nothin’ this quarter. Well, maybe we’d better explain pronto, before you stop reading.
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Well, PHY-nally!
By The Phantom — Looks as if a project the industry has been working on for at least eight years, maybe longer, is coming to fruition. That is the idea commonly called remote PHY.
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What I Didn’t Learn in School
By The Phantom — When I decided to haunt the cable TV industry, I had to disguise myself as a human student and go back to school to pick up some book-learning on this thing called electronics. When I was there, we had a saying that 50% of what we were learning we would never use, and 50% of what we were going to need, we were not being taught. So why not scrub the half that we didn’t need and replace it with what we did need?
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The Internet of Things
By The Phantom — Well, heck, everyone else writes about it without knowing what it means, and so shall I. Some of the definitions you see for the IoT (Internet of Thingsfor those of you living under a rock) are pretty wild. Electronic Designtried recently to summarize several serious definitions.
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Just the Facts, Ma’am
By The Phantom — Hey, with all the interest in fake news recently, it’s kind of refreshing/alarming to remember that people have been hearing what they want to hear for a long time. And engineers have often been the bearers of bad tidings, who get ignored.
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