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Bruce A. Johnson
A 1981 graduate of the Boston University College of Communication, Bruce A. Johnson got his first job in broadcast television at WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, FL. While there, he rose through the ranks from teleprompter operator to videographer, editor, producer and director of many different types of programming. It was in the early 1980's that he bought his first computer - a Timex/Sinclair 1000 - a device he hated so much, he promptly exchanged it for an Atari 400. But the bug had bitten hard. In 1987, Johnson joined Wisconsin Public Television in Madison as a videographer/editor, and still works there to the present day. His responsibilities have grown, however, and now include research and presentations on the issues surrounding the digital television transition, new consumer technology and the use of public television spectrum in homeland security. He freelances through his company Painted Post MultiMedia, and has written extensively for magazines including DV and Studio Monthly. 
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It Had To HappenThe Comeuppance of a Digital TV Critic I’ve made a bit of a cottage industry out of criticizing the Digital TV transition over the last eight years. I still hold my core beliefs - that the transition was unnecessary, poorly engineered, and largely a welfare program for equipment companies and TV set sellers. But the biggest problem in my eyes is that the ATSC standard is locked into the technology of when it was ratified - 1996. That means that the top-shelf technology of 12 years ago - MPEG2 compression - is supposed to be our TV standard for decades to come. more »Any White Wall - A Movie Palace!A Projector You Can Hold In Your Hand? Here’s a link to a Popular Science blurb on the debut of the 3M Mpro110 Pocket Projector. I saw this demonstrated at CES 2008, and it’s undeniably cool, if a little light in the lumens department. It runs at VGA resolution (640x480) and makes a decent picture if you give it a little darkness to work in. The 3M guy at CES said the holy grail of this technology is fitting a projector into a cell phone, and right now I wouldn’t bet against the boys from Minneapolis. REVIEW: Roku Netflix PlayerWho isn’t a Netflix subscriber? It’s a pretty rare mailbox that never sees those iconic red Netflix envelopes. The little mail-order that could reshaped the face of video rentals seemingly overnight. But slick as it is, you still have to do something that is anathema to many people these days - you have to wait. Now there seems to be a bit of an answer to that, and one that could offer an alternative delivery vehicle for small productions. more » A Salute To America’s History TeacherTom Hanks Embiggens Us All I’m using this holiday weekend to do some movie-watching catch-up (even with astoundingly nice weather). Last night it was time to load up “Charlie Wilson’s War,” produced by and starring the man I’ve come to call America’s History Teacher: Tom Hanks. more »
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