In 1980 the broadcast business was just about to go digital but not quite ready. There was a world class competition between B format from Bosch-Fernseh in Germany and C format from a conglomerate of Japanese manufacturers. C format had the advantage of being able to hold a still frame when the the tape stopped. B format needed a digital frame store to do the same, but the quality was far superior. C format was a totally inferior format. Low frequency noise caused video to be considered unusable for multi-generation special effects and millions of dollars of equipment was sold across the world for a format that disappeared in 5 years or so. Quality rules when it comes to production. The filmakers have always understood this, but the video manufacturers are always looking for the C-heap way out. This carelessness about quality continues today with digital recording formats.

Thanks for the education on acronyms being pronounced as a single word. Whatever we call it CMX was a tradename and copyrighted title for the original computer editing company that was a partnership between CBS & Memorex. Would you agree that fact should be preserved? Also what do we call letter combinations that form a new entity but can't be pronounced as a single word...like IBM? One more question. Does anyone know how Memorex magnetic tape technology was related to Bing Crosby? Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us

Most readers are too young to remember that CMX is the name of the partnership between CBS and Memorex to develop the earliest computerized editing. This music company project will lose because it tries to "overwrite" a well established name that should not be obliterated or whatever you call it these days. Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - www.vidiots.us

At Videography Lab we are in the middle of a major copyright claim based originally on a website. The US Patent Office will not consider any content, academic or otherwise that is submitted via HTML. The documents must be fixed like jpg or other bitmap files ... perhaps a dynamic PDF. In this case all reference files in the PDF must be bitmaps that become part of the PDF package submitted. We understand that you are talking academia, but patents and copyrights are the end game. So we would like to hear from anyone who has made a claim with a dynamic PDF and succeeded. Bob Kiger - Videography Lab

Weather balloons are a great idea. Just check out this USAF ID chart at http://videographyblog.com/USAF_ID_chart.jpg

It is a great idea if you review the USAF ID chart at http://videographyblog.com/USAF_ID_chart.jpg

I tried another approach and forced.Hotsheet.com [as opposed to My.Hotsheet.com] onto my browser. It appeared as normal. Than I hit the link MyHS in the upper right corner and up pops my.hotsheet.com as it usually has in the past. There was one still one problem. The secure sign in password dialog box did not appear. The personalized links do appear to work and my personal info appears in secure site sign in pages . . . Is this OK? Or is the information less secure than before Pantaserv notice showed up?

In order to even begin to comprehend the issues facing US Videography Lab, long ago, proffered "Battlespace Videography", where we are all vidiots . . . "useful idiots". So it is no surprise to us that China is capitalizing on cyber intelligence and warfare. The Chinese are skilled in the field of visual anthropology, which we know well. Visit www.videographyblog.com to understand how we are currently immersed in "the age of videography". Only the brainless believe that videography is just about using video cameras.