Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10512 comp.graphics:10308 comp.std.internat:598 rec.video:10997 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!ncr-fc!mikemc From: mikemc@mustang.ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.com (Mike McManus) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 90 20:26:13 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 24 In-reply-to: poynton@vector.Sun.COM's message of 7 Mar 90 11:02:48 GMT In article <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> poynton@vector.Sun.COM (Charles A. Poynton) writes: > The meaning of HDTV in the United States is not the "rejeuvenation of the > domestic consumer electronics manufacturing industry." It's the continued > health of the COMPUTER industry. Let's not botch this one. Amen. We can't afford to sit around and be followers. It's bad enough that we've lost our advantage of being a nation that produces a large chuck of the world's technological advances, but to now say we should sit around and become followers instead of leaders... Ooh, makes my skin crawl! (Sorry for the commentary, but I had to get my $.02 in...) -- Disclaimer: All spelling and/or grammer in this document are guaranteed to be correct; any exseptions is the is wurk uv intter-net deemuns. Mike McManus (mikemc@ncr-fc.FtCollins.ncr.com) NCR Microelectronics 2001 Danfield Ct. ncr-fc!mikemc@ncr-sd.sandiego.ncr.com, or Ft. Collins, Colorado ncr-fc!mikemc@ccncsu.colostate.edu, or (303) 223-5100 Ext. 360 uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!ncr-fc!garage!mikemc