Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10711 comp.graphics:10478 comp.std.internat:635 rec.video:11192 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!bowers From: bowers@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: I don't need HDTV! Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 90 20:21:43 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Mar17.025325.9827@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> Sender: news@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 42 In-reply-to: gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu's message of 17 Mar 90 02:53:25 GMT In article <1990Mar17.025325.9827@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes: >bowers@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers) writes: >>>In article <1990Mar15.090214.9871@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes: ...story of my infamous analog digital screwup deleted... >>I'd vote for a clean break from the current NTSC standard in the new >>HDTV standard. Give me anywhere from 500 to 1000 lines horizontal >>resolution and I could be happy with that until I'm old and gray... >>Just another opinion... >I hear you: GIVE ME. But are you willing to PAY for it? You sound like >those comp.sys.mac people who say the low cost Mac should have at least >a 68030 and 4 megs of RAM and 256 colors. :-P Actually Glenn I have a real dislike for Macs and here is why, I refuse to use any machine whose presupposition is that I don't know anything about what it is I am trying to do. This prevents me from doing some of the wonderful things a Mac is capable of but it doesn't bother me too much. As to the implication that I would not be willing to spend the money to get the performance, I'd like to point out that if you'd read any of my previous postings you'd know that I firmly believe that you get what you pay for. My current camcorder is a S-VHS-C and next time around I will buy the same format with HiFi also. My VCR is a VHS and has MTS which came out in the mid '80s (MTS was only 12 months old when I bought it, only linear stereo but at the time that was all that was available). My next VCR will be the new JVC S-VHS(-C) machine that will accept S-VHS, VHS, S-VHS-C and VHS-C, it will cost me a pretty penny but it too will be worth it. GIVE ME the option and let me decide how much I want to spend for what features. :-P yourself... -- Albion H. Bowers bowers@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov!bowers NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Aerodynamics: The ONLY way to fly! Live to ski, ski to live...