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What is image resolution?

Bruce’s Shorts | 4.12 - How Many Pixels in Your Resolution? March 29th 2017 - 12:00 PM

In this episode of Bruce’s Shorts, Bruce Devlin raises the question “What does the word resolution actually mean and why do people get confused?”.

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Co-Inventor of Lithium Ion Batteries Announces a New Breakthrough in Battery Technology March 15th 2017 - 09:00 AM

A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has developed the first solid-state battery cells that could lead to safer, faster-charging, longer-lasting rechargeable batteries.

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Special Edition: Super Bowl LI—Technology Insight: RF, Cell and Streaming Systems: Part 2 March 10th 2017 - 01:00 PM

The Super Bowl isn’t just a Sunday afternoon world championship game. It’s a week-long event with massive TV coverage. Cameras and TV crews from around the globe congregated on this year’s Super Bowl city, Houston, TX, where the game was played in the NRG Stadium.

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The Changing World of Tripods March 9th 2017 - 04:00 PM

If you think of a tripod only as a three-legged camera support system, perhaps a refresher course is in order. In recent years, tripods have evolved and the types have expanded. Yes, all tripods still support cameras, but there is so much more to know about them today.

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SD Card Association Announces the UHS-III Standard For SD and Micro SD Cards March 6th 2017 - 11:00 AM

The SD Association has announced UHS-III, a new standard doubling the fastest SD memory card transfer rate up to 624 megabytes per second (MB/s).

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The crew filming Prince Harry And The Walking With The Wounded Team on their trek to the South Pole.

Applied Technology: Timecode Systems — It’s All About The Sync February 22nd 2017 - 04:00 PM

In the last decade, there has been a significant shift what viewers like to see on their televisions with much of that content recorded as live reality style shows. Capturing such spontaneous content brings many challenges, but one of the biggest is managing the huge amounts of media created. Fortunately, with the help of timecode and synchronisation, it is possible to wrestle back some control over the content while saving money.

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Figure 1: Oculus Rift—with headphones.

CES 2017:  The ‘VR’ Reality February 13th 2017 - 01:00 PM

CES 2017 has come and gone with most press reporting Virtual Reality landed with a virtual thud. My view of CES is different because I see two very different types of VR.

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Spectrum congestion ramps up in the days leading to Super Bowl LI. Photo courtesy LiveU.

Super Bowl LI RF Congestion February 1st 2017 - 01:00 PM

The glamor of TV sports journalists swarming and reporting from big pre-game venues is nearly impossible for visiting fans to ignore, but the real TV action on and off the field is invisible without a spectrum analyzer.

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