Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:10559 comp.graphics:10352 comp.std.internat:605 rec.video:11064 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!crg5!roc From: roc@crg5.UUCP (Ron Christian) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR Message-ID: <19066@crg5.UUCP> Date: 13 Mar 90 17:53:39 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> <1990Mar13.023805.24765@athena.mit.edu> <14248@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: roc@crg5.UUCP (Ron Christian) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 19 In article <14248@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wen-king@cit-vax.UUCP (Wen-King Su) writes: > It is >the manufacturing sector that brings real cash to shore up the economy, >not the royalties from R&D. Exactly. Why spend R&D bucks when a standard already exists? It's money spent for little long term gain. The American company that embraces an existing standard will be first to market in America, and will be less far behind in the world market. The companies that futz around trying to reinvent the wheel will be, at least on the world market, introducing product that competes with earlier, more firmly intrenched standards. No single American company is big enough to compete effectively in this fashion anymore. We lost the race to invent an HDTV standard. We got started too late. Let's face up to that and see what we can do about getting product out. Ron