Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10611 comp.graphics:10395 comp.std.internat:613 rec.video:11118 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!ccncsu!ncr-fc!mikemc From: mikemc@mustang.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 20:01:30 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> Sender: news@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 44 In-reply-to: mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP's message of 11 Mar 90 07:35:47 GMT In article <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton) writes: > Well, I would suggest that we use the MUSE system. Why wait years > and years for a system that hasn't even be finalized, and settle > for something that will most probably be inferior. (re: American > MTS system. Japan had theirs before ours, and we got stuck with > Zenith's system, and they got rich.) > > Billions spent on competing systems, and for what? Pride? > Selfishness? Come on, even some of the major Japanese manufacturers > (Matsushita, Sony, Toshiba, for example) built their TV sets in > American facilities. IMHO, your analysis is correct: If we develop our own standard (read => different than the Japanese), then they will not be able to compete in our market (not right away, at least). And just like that, we have a U.S. "monopoly" (of sorts). And no need to go begging to Congress for import restrictions. Gee, isn't that clever! > Sure MUSE is not perfect, but Sony and NHK surely has made the > system expandable, it's available *now*. By the way, I believe NHK > and Sony is working on an NTSC compatible MUSE system. And that's exactly the argument that folks will make, but I don't think it holds up very well. Sure, if you wait a while and let someone else work the kinks out of a new system/standard/process, you can always improve on it later. "Yeah, but then if we just waited a *LITTLE* longer, it could be even better! And a little longer than that... Heck, it'd be damn near perfect!" At which time the pace-setters have long since left you in the dust, and you are left with a "perfect" obsolete system. What a great idea! As a disclaimer, I don't know much about the HDTV standards or controversy, I just have a problem with the "but we must do it ourselves so that it will be perfect..." mentality. -- Disclaimer: All spelling and/or grammer in this document are guaranteed to be correct; any exseptions is the is wurk uv intter-net deemuns. Mike McManus (mikemc@ncr-fc.FtCollins.ncr.com) NCR Microelectronics 2001 Danfield Ct. ncr-fc!mikemc@ncr-sd.sandiego.ncr.com, or Ft. Collins, Colorado ncr-fc!mikemc@ccncsu.colostate.edu, or (303) 223-5100 Ext. 360 uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!ncr-fc!garage!mikemc