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From: stever@videovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Future of Amiga Video
Message-ID: <4658@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 03:35:36 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4658
Posted: Sat Oct 31 03:35:36 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Nov-87 07:03:26 EST
References: <4579@zen.berkeley.edu> <4325@well.UUCP> <1908@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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Summary: NTSC compatibility is not much of a problem. . .

In article <1908@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, Bob Page (page@swan.ulowell.edu)
writes:

> . . .

> Besides, it looks very likely that no HDTV will be OK'd by the
> FCC unless it's backwards compatible with existing NTSC ...

This won't be much of a problem.  When television was developed, all
receiver functions had to be performed by 25 to 50 active devices (which
at that time came in glass bottles).  Now a memory chip with over a
million active devices is in the neighborhood of $20 and takes up 0.5
square inches.  Manufacturers will invest the few hundred thousand
active devices (and the extra $10) needed to ensure that all HDTV sets
(at least the ones sold in this country) will be NTSC compatible.

					Steve Rice

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