Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10654 comp.graphics:10427 comp.std.internat:622 rec.video:11158 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu!tybalt.caltech.edu!gbrown From: gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: I don't need HDTV! Message-ID: <1990Mar17.022845.9450@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Date: 17 Mar 90 02:28:45 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> <1990Mar13.023805.24765@athena.mit.edu> <1990Mar15.090214.9871@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <530@bilver.UUCP> Sender: news@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 34 bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes: >In article <1990Mar15.090214.9871@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes: > >> I'd be perfectly happy to settle for the telivision picture tubes of today! >>It's the signal that's so horrendous! >The output of a laser player isn't awesome. It's good... HA! I knew this discussion would get people going! My point was not that Laser Discs are awesome. My point IS that when *I* watch TV (not too often, mind you) It doesn't bother me that I can't get 6" from the sceen and still not see pixels: If I got a 6' screen, I would just sit 3 times further away from it than a 24" set. Sure, a few years after graduating from Caltech, I MIGHT be able to afford a HDTV set. But will it be WORTH it? Will I want to spend $5000 on a HDTV set, or would I rather spend $500 plop a box on the top of my TV that decodes digital broadcasts, and gives me a noise-free picture on my lower Res. monitor? I'd go for the $500 box! And what of the MILLIONS of people who won't be able to afford the HDTV sets? I say, there should be a middle-of-the-road solution in addition to HDTV. There should be HDTV, but I DON'T NEED HDTV! >I spent years in broadcast, and have seen many changes in the FCC, and I am >not too particularly impressed with their performance in the past few years. I can't argue w/ that! In fact, where does the FCC claim to get the legal authority to regulate speach over the airwaves? e.g. why will a HAM who says F**K on the airwaves almost surely lose his license? So much for freedom of speach! It's a form of government censorship. I have nothing against CENSURE, but censorship by the gov. is WRONG.