By The Phantom – Standards bodies anticipate needs and develop standards, and nobody comes to the party. That’s one of the hazards of standards development. Standards are almost always developed by volunteers from companies who are interested in products based on the standard, and those companies spend a lot of money on top engineers working on the standard
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By The Phantom – So it is in cable TV, our beloved industry. I’d say that the third generation is hard at work now, building on the analog and basic digital transmission of the second generation, developed as I and my cohorts haunted the industry.
Read MoreBy The Phantom – They always talk about the future and how rosy it’s gonna be. I had this great article all written based on what my crystal ball said the future held: programmers cutting rates, DBS going away, telcos folding up shop, etc.
Read MoreBy The Phantom – Ah yes, Christmas is my favorite time of the year. You see, there is a long tradition we got from Merry Olde England, of telling ghost stories at Christmas time. And as a phantom, anything related to haunts grabs my fancy.
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