Kinescope Recording – Television’s Antique Recording Medium

Kinescope Recording - Television's Antique Recording Medium 1

I’ve written about restoration of television programs before. But the master copies were usually on videotape that didn’t start showing up until the late 1950’s. The forerunner to videotape, the kinescope, was not considered to be worth restoration. The resolution was poor and most “used” kinescopes had been damaged from their many runs through projection […]

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Use your iPhone with Project Fi from Google and save $$ per month: Two different methods and their consequences

Use your iPhone with Project Fi from Google and save $$ per month: Two different methods and their consequences 2

As of publication date of this article, there are 3 Google Nexus Android phone models that work officially with Google’s revolutionary Project Fi telephone service. I happily use one of those Nexus phones. I love Project Fi and my average bill is only US$25 for use in the US or abroad. Next month in October, […]

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Sony PXW-X70 camcorder finally graduates to 100Mbs 4K UHD with firmware 3.0

Sony PXW-X70 camcorder finally graduates to 100Mbs 4K UHD with firmware 3.0 4

Back in 2015, I published several articles about the Sony PXW-X70 camcorder, which offered an optional paid upgrade to 4K UHD, but initially constrained it to only 60Mb/s, instead of the customary 100Mb/s on nearly any other professional or consumer camcorder. Our friends at Mexican-based CineDigitalTV demonstrated the limitations of the 60Mb/s 4K UHD recordings […]

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