May 1991 - A slightly irreverent column about "Laser Rot". (Still applicable today.)These are a series of Technical Articles focusing on Consumer Electronics that I wrote over a four year period for the Pacific Northwest Audio Society (PAS) newsletter. They originally took the form of a monthly column. There's some really good, in-depth information in them, if I do say so myself. So, click on a link below, and find out all you ever wanted to know about Consumer Electronics. All articles copyright (c) 1996 by Paul A. Pietromonaco.
For more articles, including the latest issues of the newsletter, check out the archive of PAS articles on Dave Munoz's page: http://www.seanet.com/~dmunoz/PAS/pasindex.html
April 1991 - My first column for the newsletter. An april fools column that would set the tone for the rest of my work
May 1991 - A slightly irreverent column about "Laser Rot". (Still applicable today.)
June 1991 - A glossary of video terms. Very useful.
July 1991 - The video terms glossary I wrote for June, with a few more entries.
August 1991 - A technical description of 3D audio technologies SRS and Q-Sound
September 1991 - A look at the Dolby Labs product line.
October 1991 - An in-depth look at the audio recording process.
December 1991 - A description of Shoreline Community College's recording studios and a thorough look at CD+G
January 1992 - A New Year's column describing a recording session, techniques to eliminate RF interference in video, and some predictions for the future.
March 1992 - A description of DAT and what it's like owning one.
June 1992 - A brief description of digital movie sound formats available at the time.
July 1992 - A Review of the first movie to use Dolby Stereo Digital Sound - Batman Returns
July 1992 - An article about some of the first Recordable CD formats.
August 1992 - A sample of my standard writing style
August 1992 - A description of how the Barcelona Olympic Games were broadcast.
August 1992 - An interesting article about human pitch perception.
September 1992 - A quick article about DMX.
October 1992 - An in-depth article about digital jitter.
December 1992 - An article about comb filters and how they affect your television and video systems.
April 1993 - The first edition of a series of articles explaining THX.
January 1994 - Introduction to January's meetings.
January 1994 - First in a series of two articles detailing how to get incredible video at home.
February 1994 - Last in a series of two articles detailing how to get incredible video at home.
Last Updated: October 8, 1997