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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-88 18:45:37 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep8.184537.19337@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: G. A. W. Consulting
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: A golden opportunity
Summary: HDTV->NTSC may not be necessary
References: <1411@maccs.McMaster.CA> <20776@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2014@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods)
Distribution: can

In article <2014@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> [....]
>Or, just as there are expensive TVs that get both PAL and NTSC, Canadians
>may end up forking out for this sort of thing.
> [....]
>Unlike the old days where it cost a LOT to convert PAL->NTSC, it's now
>quite cheap.  All you need is a frame buffer.  Every TV station in Canada
>would have a real time HDTV format converter.
>-- 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473

I'm not familiar with the standard that the USA has decided upon, but
being that it is different than the existing European and Japanese
standards, there is a good chance that it is based upon a scheme that
provides a signal compatible with existing NTSC TV sets.

In other words, US HDTV may be upwardly compatible with NTSC.  Everyone
gets to watch everything, and the rich just get a better picture.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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