Michael Heiss
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The Other Side of Streaming (opens the original)
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Back in the day, when you produced and/or distributed content mostly through one broadcast or cable channel, making certain everything looked and sounded the way it should was easy. You simply checked it at the last point where you touched it and then verified it via a return feed. Oh, that it was still that easy. Now, thanks to content distributed through multiple distribution pipes and consumer-side reception devices, you have to check the same piece of content multiple times. Think of it as c
Articles by Michael Heiss, The Other Side columnist | TV Tech (opens the original)
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Michael Heiss has almost five decades of covering all aspects of the consumer and professional electronics industries. Currently an industry consultant on consumer electronics products and marketing he has held executive positions at manufacturers, brands and service companies. A Life Member of SMPTE, IEEE and SBE, he is also a CEDIA Fellow and recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award. The Other Side Consumers will blame you if your video doesn’t sound or look right, so it’s important to kn
Welcome to The Other Side (opens the original)
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Have you ever heard the old movie cliché, “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” Those of you who might recognize my name or byline from consumer and residential technology publications over the years might reasonably paraphrase that to ask, “What’s a consumer-centric journalist doing in TV Tech?” That’s a good question, but as an introduction to my new column, “The Other Side,” allow me to explain. Over the years, I have been involved in exactly what the name of this publicat
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