UHF Magazine No. 76 was published in May, 2006. All contents are copyright 2006 by Broadcast Canada. They may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher.
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EDITORIAL
The all-digital issue
Until this issue, Albert was taking the
Yes, I know, that means we have in a sense dumped analog (film) for digital, but in fact that ship sailed a long time ago. The magazine has been printed digitally for something like a decade, which means that our nice “analog” film negatives got digitized anyway before placement in our
Albert is delighted with the results. I think you will be too.
All color, except…
Issue No. 75 was UHF’s very first
But was it holding costs down, or is labor even more expensive than pre- mium paper grades? After the last issue went to press we asked our printer rep: if we dumped the insert and just added eight more color pages, would it be more expensive? Or cheaper? We got the answer the next day: it would be cheaper!
That’s why the insert is gone. We scrambled to find color pictures of all the accessories found in our store, and the store catalog is now on full color pages. So now we really are
Except that audio manufacturers haven’t got the word about color. Check out the stack of three headphone amplifiers on page 38. Can you believe that’s a color picture? There isn’t a hint of a tint in any of them. Of course when you plug one in you’ll probably see a tiny, barely visible blue diode glowing its little non monochromatic note. Whoopee!
Even Apple, that champion of high style in consumer electronics, knows only two colors, one of which is white and the other of which is not. Good thing the iPod (on page 45) has a color screen. As for the tragically misnamed iPod
And speaking of the iPod…
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