Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10628 comp.graphics:10408 comp.std.internat:615 rec.video:11138 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!snorkelwacker!spdcc!ima!haddock!news From: news@haddock.ima.isc.com (overhead) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: I don't need HDTV! Message-ID: <16197@haddock.ima.isc.com> Date: 16 Mar 90 15:58:49 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> Reply-To: suitti@anchovy.UUCP (Stephen Uitti) Organization: Interactive Systems Co Lines: 36 In article <530@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes: >If you consider that the LP is virtually dead now, it only lasted 41. I never liked LPs. Even an audiophile LP has pops & klicks, even the first play. It gets worse each play. A low grade audio cassette doesn't have terrible distractions or sound degradation. We could have dumped LPs long ago. The industry kept pushing vinal. They kept saying that it was "better". A friend has a nice 25 inch monitor TV. It was real expensive. I saw some stuff on laser disk. It was very impressive. I saw some stuff on video tape - super beta, VHS. Less impressive, but not generally distracting. Cable TV had almost OK stations and pretty bad ones. Without cable, the distractions while watching the show are almost as bad as commercials. If over-the-air quality could be brought to laser disk standards it would be an overnight success. If it was cable-only, I'd probably buy a better TV & spend the $30-$40 a month. Heck, I might even watch it. If HDTV doesn't have some sort of correction system built in, then it will be no better than cable as it is now. Simply increasing bandwidth on a noisy medium does not remove noise. If you create un-expandable standards, they will be bad. The rope cut to length is too short. Technology will outstrip our current ideas of what is easily "as much as anyone can afford". If you want to build a cheap TV with the new standard, you should be able to ignore things - like error correction, or some of the resolution, or one of the sound channels, or the closed captioned channel... On transmission, you have to be able to omit stuff, like error correction, resolution, sound channels... Stephen. suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com