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Originally Posted by avguytx
Being an electronics rep, I am in agreement that I'm ready for them to shut off the analog signal. It's been talked about for WAAAAYYYYY too long. I mean, until OTA HD signal, there hadn't been any "real" major difference in video reproduction since TV was invented. When color came out, is was basically B&W with color laced into it. There's only so many lines of resolution that those old sets can reproduce. Why would anyone want to watch TV in any other way than what new video can reproduce?.... .... I don't mean to start anything with anyone but I guess after having been in this business for 30 years, TV's are something that never appealed to me for collectibility and it amazes me that someone would want to watch the old funky rounded tubes and have no remote, etc. (I was the remote control when I was a kid!...lol) Now audio on the other hand, that's another story. It's fun to look at, friends think it's cool, sound quality can vary with each piece, etc. But like I always say...to each their own. Oh well. I'm just ready for all the BS about NTSC to be over with. Just my $.02. No more, no less....only opinion of one person.  |
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I read this debate on antiqueradio.com, and it seemed to always come down to one side accusing the other of living in the past. However, the arguement can be made that the new system is backwards-compatable, so long as you have a digital/analog conversion box.
I am willing to accept that, grudgingly, so that the mouth-breathing masses can see the stitching on a football, or the latest layer of Micheal Jackson's plastic surgery.
My first complaint is with the government becoming involved with what should be a private sector decision. Right now, broadcasters are running digital and analog transmissions. As long as they can make $$ doing both, they will. When the cost of electricity for running the analog tower outweighs the loss of ad revenue generated by people watching on analog sets is reached, they can decide for themselves when to shut down the old tower, not by an artificial mandate of 2009.
My second complaint is with the all/nothing nature of a digital signal, and what a PIA this is going to be anytime you don't want to watch TV (or eventually listen to the radio) from a hardwired (usually pay) connection.
Just yesterday, I was helping a friend clean her basement and we dug-up an old 19" Zenith Chromacolor set fom under the stairs (I hate to even say that for fear of yet another chromacolor testimonial!) I plugged it in, pulled up the rabbit-ears and damned if I wasn't watching the Simpsons while we cleaned the basement, albiet with a little snow. In the all digital senario, no cable, no usable signal in a basement.
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...And yes, the friend has cable. Not everybody sits down to watch TV in their "media room" like it's some kinda big event. Could you imagine how successful radio WOULDN'T have been if you had to connect it to a cable to work?
If we can so easily dismiss the .03% of the population that gets signals OTA, why the hell do we need the FCC? Some guy running a pirate TV station on channel 69 isn't going to affect my digital cable reception of Anna Nicole Smith's latest scandal.
IF the HDTV/digital system is so great, people will demand it in time. If you involve the government, you eliminate competition, so there will be no motivation for someone to build a $200 HDTV. It's only electronics companies who have lobbied for an incompatable digital system. Last I heard, this was "supposed" to be a capitalist nation.
There is no reason the two can't co-exist (as they do now). Spare me the post-911 paranoia about "needed" frequencies, cops won't even go to a uniform "10" system with their radio calls, which results in loads of confusion in a disaster.
Your car has air-conditioning because more & more people paid extra for it in the 50s, 60s & 70s. It's not like it went away because people in the Alaska don't have a need for it.
Oh yeah... the 16:9 ratio is retarded too! 90% of framed shots are of 2-3 people, not the Chinese army running down a mountain! Now the camera man has to pull way back to frame the shot, and you get LESS detail of the action! Widescreen was a gimmick designed to COMBAT television, not be adopted by it!