Stewart Wolpin
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Technology writer/reporter for 30+ yrs, tech historian, Mets season tix holder, Beatles/Dylan fan, history buff, cesspool of useless information.
New York, NY
Joined June 2008
My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: Whatever state Linus van Pelt lives in. Surely he’ll have the most sincere pumpkin patch anywhere this year!
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My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: Patti Harrison, George Harrison's wife, who can be seen in the train sequence in "Hard Days Night". Yeah yeah yeah!
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My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: Sopwith Camel! Good grief!
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My answer to @MuckRack Daily's trivia question: George Castanza
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CTA Centennial Part 6g (1985-2000): Platform Wars – HDTV (Part 2) https://t.co/hNLgIervn4 How HDTV finally arrived despite conflicting profit, pride, political, power, and product motives. @CTATech
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The battle for HDTV was won, despite a snake pit filled with conflicting profit, pride, political, power, and product motives.
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CTA Centennial Part 6g (1985-2000): Platform Wars – HDTV (Part 1) https://t.co/LtXV8DyJp9 Everyone watching modern TV – 2K standard HDTV, 4K, and 8K – is watching a bona fide miracle. Here's Part I of the back story of that miracle. @CTATech
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Everyone watching modern TV – 2K standard HDTV, 4K, and 8K – is watching a bona fide miracle thanks to the sweat and toil of HDTV's "parents".
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CTA Centennial Part 6f: Platform Wars – DVD https://t.co/ol8fcCjCIE The fascinating story of how CE and PC hardware makers and content providers agreed it was better to get along and create a universal format despite technical differences, corporate egos, and greed.
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Whatever the reason for its longevity, DVD seems more the exception than the rule as far as platform wars past and present are concerned.
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CTA Centennial Part 6e: Platform Wars – Digital Photography https://t.co/Zks2YMDm57 The story behind the surprisingly slow development of the digital camera, aided by the development of flash memory and photo software. #CTAtech
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Digital cameras and solid-state memory are foundational tech that emerged in the last decade of the 20th century and continue to play major roles today.
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CTA Centennial Part 6d: Century’s End – Compression https://t.co/yUEnYqkdj0 How the "magic" technologies that make digital photos, video, and music possible were developed. @CTATech
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Compression advancements in the last 15 years of the 20th century were a true international effort and were led largely by four engineers.
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CTA Centennial Part 6c: Platform Wars – Airways (Part II) https://t.co/NkVKaYsR0n Part 2 of my history of the A/V satellite platform wars in the 1990s, DirecTV v. Dish and Sirius v. XM satellite radio. @CTATech
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This week's CTA Centennial article explores how the satellite platform wars battles brought us TV and radio from the sky.
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CTA Centennial Part 6a (1985-2000): Platform Wars – Recording Media https://t.co/sGj4jLULxw The last 15 years of the 20th century were filled with a series of competing devices and technology platforms, starting with multiple A/V recording formats. @CTATech
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The years between 1985 to 2000 were filled with a series of competing and incompatible devices and technologies, an era I’m labeling Platform Wars.
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CTA Centennial Part 5e: A Decade of Disruption – 1984: Hollywood Loses The Battle Against Home Video – But Wins The War https://t.co/PDa6S3MH99 Video may have killed the radio star, but the real battle was in the courts for the home video biz and home recording rights #CTAtech
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This is the fifth entry of part 5 in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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CTA Centennial Part 5d: A Decade of Disruption – 1984 ‘Phones It In’: In this Orwellian year, judges, lawyers, and federal agencies grab a starring role in the consumer tech business.
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This is the fourth entry of part 5 in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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CTA Centennial Part 5c: A Decade of Disruption – Personal Computing. This week, I explore the device no one thought we'd want at home, the personal computer, and one type of computer we were happy to buy. https://t.co/nDlzAir7oi
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This week we explore the invasion of the Personal PC and video game systems in our ongoing CTA Centennial coverage.
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CTA Centennial Part 5b: A Decade Of Disruption – Personal Audio Revolution: How one Sony exec's desire to listen to good music on a transcontinental flight changed how we all listen to music forever. https://t.co/i5bTqtZRXV
@CTATech @SonyElectronics
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This is the second entry of part 5 in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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CTA Centennial Part 5a: A Decade of Disruption – Home Video Revolution https://t.co/sJ1sBZKGD8
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Part 4 of my series exploring and celebrating the consumer technology industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship. CTA Centennial Part 4: The Sixties https://t.co/9tgj6uGxzi
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This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring and celebrating CTA’s and our industry’s first century of invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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CTA Centennial Part 3: The TV Age – Part 3 in my ongoing series on the history of the consumer electronics industry tracking the impact of WW2 on consumer tech, the remarkable rise of TV, the rise of solid state, and Hedy Lamarr. https://t.co/wgnbWy3C8p
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The 1950s was dominated by the rapid rise of television. By 1955, U.S. TV household penetration leaped to 64.5%, by 1960, it reached 87.1%.
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Herbert H. Frost: CTA’s George Washington – Bio of CTA's 1st, 2d, and 5th president, a forgotten but indispensable radio and consumer tech industry pioneer and leader. https://t.co/XHMUlygWyK
@CTATech @GaryShapiro #techhistory
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