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The 13th annual DTV Symposium is under way in Des Moines. Iowa Public Television runs the symposium, which has acquired a reputation for bringing together some of the best technological thinking in public and commercial media.
I wasn’t able to get out of Minneapolis (PRPD) until this morning, but I got in just in time for [...]

I had a great chat today with my favorite manager in public television… and while our chats tend to cover acres and acres of territory, we spent most of our time today on the subject of HD and TV’s digital bandwidth.
I’ve already offered up my snarky remarks on the 24 hour PBS HD feed - [...]

And I’m not talking about “This American Life.”
Great thoughts in the past few weeks on the TV digital multicast front: first, from David Liroff and second from Dennis Haarsager.
Why can’t our fat digital TV pipelines serve as a portal for all public media? If I’m a statewide PTV network, why couldn’t I reserve bandwidth for [...]

Internet streaming and mp3’s are teaching us some important lessons about changing consumer expectations about audio quality. The Wall Street Journal reports this week that consumers are compromising a pristine level of sound reproduction for convenience and portability. This isn’t exactly headline news for any of us, but I think we haven’t begun to fully [...]