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.
Read MoreBy The Phantom -As this is written I still can’t get my head around all the disasters that have happened recently. What, five major hurricanes in a short period of time, two impacting some of the same areas, earthquakes in Mexico, wildfires in California. And that just brings us up to when we started haunting our old manual typewriter to write this article
Read MoreBy 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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