Hub
The direct continuation of this publication's original beat. Broadcast standards, transmission, tuners and display technology — the parts of television that are engineered rather than marketed.
Four HDR formats, doing the same job in different ways. What separates them is metadata and licensing rather than picture quality — and a television that supports HDR can still show it badly.
HDMI version numbers are among the least reliable specifications in consumer electronics. What matters is the bandwidth and the individual features — and manufacturers are not required to list them.
Panning shots that stutter are not a fault. They are the visible result of film's frame rate not dividing evenly into a television's refresh rate — a mismatch that has been around since television began.
The first American broadcast standard designed around IP rather than a fixed channel. What it actually changes, and why the switchover has taken so long.
In January 2010 free live broadcast television on a phone looked like a solved problem. The standard was finished and the hardware was real. A retrospective on why it went nowhere.
The boundaries of this hub, so it stays a subject rather than a catch-all.
