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Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE
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Date: 14 Mar 90 02:59:40 GMT
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>From vsi1!ames!horus.esd.sgi.com!thant Tue Mar 13 10:25:42 1990
>Subject: Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR
>This isn't the place for this, but I can't stand it anymore.

	Hmmm.... Ok, but some people think graphics has a lot to do
	with HTDV ... poor suckers :-) ! Maybe all follow ups should
	be directed to rec.arts.tv ??

>industry as a whole.  Who cares if the Japanese are better at 
>building chips?  The U.S. still produces the best computers 

	Many people in the industry do. Just because some companies
	are making money building computers, does not mean, everyone
	has to build computers and ignore the building blocks -- chips.
	I am sure, if only a few chips were at stake, nobody
	would have cared. But migration of whole industries ??
	If I were you, I'd take a second look at that generalization!

>It was the television industry got the fucking FCC
>to shoot a lot of new technology development in the foot in order

	Hmmm.. FCC regulates EMI , that is Electro Magnetic Interference.
	Correct me if I am wrong, but without that the telephone near
	your computer terminal could have so much noise in it that
	you probably could not have a proper conversation. I am ignorant 
	of whatever else FCC regulates besides EMI.
	I wonder what new technology development got shot in the foot
	just because FCC said so !:-)!. Don't tell me that american engineers
	are so dumb that they cannot conform to FCC standards!!!

>(It's exactly as if the record industry outlawed CDs.  The difference is that
>the record industry didn't have an FCC to do it for them.)

	This is a very poor analogy. Building chips and making CDs are 
	different in lots of ways.

>Almost everything is invented here:  

	Everything related to computers and technology perhaps, Yes.
	Remember the revolution in machines and technology really
	started in Europe and if you go back further in history
	some concepts originated in the far east also !

>because the government needs an enemy to use as a scapegoat 

	Is'nt that a fact!. As always 
		Yours truly 
		Uncle Sam 	gets a goat  :-)
>thant

	Sorry for the ramble here, I do not know enough to contribute
	to the HDTV issue , but this article was just begging for some
	comments !! :-) Follow ups in email or perhaps rec.arts.tv ?
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