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If you’re a videographer, photographer, or cinematographer, you can’t always remain stationary. Sure, a simple tripod is just fine for some shots. But in other cases, you’re going to want to move around. In that case, it’s simply not practical to be tethered to a wire. In other words, everything in your rig needs to be wireless. This means you’ll have to use battery power, …

Remember standard definition televisions? Unless you’re very young, you probably do. Do you ever wish we could go back to the day when that was the best standard? Probably not. The change from standard definition to high definition was a game changer for all kinds of entertainment. For example, watching a hockey game in standard definition was a guessing game. Most of the time, you …

As technology advances, some things change while others remain the same. Take the humble video switch. Many of us grew up with switches for coaxial cable. TVs of the day used a single channel, either three or four, for all signals other than antenna or cable. If you had a VCR, an early game console, or other device, you’d need a switch to plug them …

Differences between decent cables and great cables aren’t always obvious. But those differences do exist, and they can manifest in the quality of your audio and video. Everyone wishes this kind of thing was as simple as choosing a cable and plugging it in. The good news it doesn’t have to be much more difficult than that to find cabling that’s great at maintaining the …

When most people think of VCRs, they think of obsolete technology. Sure, the VCR may have been essential for everyone in the 80s and 90s. But they were replaced by DVDs, then BluRay and streaming media. Who is still using a VCR these days? As it turns out, quite a number of people. For one thing, people used video cassettes for old home videos. And …