Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10528 comp.graphics:10330 comp.std.internat:600 rec.video:11022 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!mfolivo From: mfolivo@sactoh0.UUCP (Mark F. Newton) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR Summary: Just use MUSE... Message-ID: <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> Date: 11 Mar 90 07:35:47 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA Lines: 31 Well, I would suggest that we use the MUSE system. Why wait years and years for a system that hasn't even be finalized, and settle for something that will most probably be inferior. (re: American MTS system. Japan had theirs before ours, and we got stuck with Zenith's system, and they got rich.) Billions spent on competing systems, and for what? Pride? Selfishness? Come on, even some of the major Japanese manufacturers (Matsushita, Sony, Toshiba, for example) built their TV sets in American facilities. Money spent, while we have to wait on the wayside, while Japan begins HDTV broadcast satellite (BS) service. OUr companies should save the money, and come up with better and less expensive HDTV sets, rather than spend money onsomething completely different, thus making early HDTV sets incredibly expensive, as the US companies try to recoup development costs, thus making the sets very unpopular. Sure MUSE is not perfect, but Sony and NHK surely has made the system expandable, it's available *now*. By the way, I believe NHK and Sony is working on an NTSC compatible MUSE system. -- Mark Newton-John (ames att sun)!pacbell! \ Sakura-mendo, CA ucdavis!csusac! - sactoh0!mfolivo uunet!mmsac! / the good guys!