Pocket, Portable and battery powered HDTV's

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

I think this is gonna be a boondoggle ala the Seat Belt Interlock fiasco of 1974-the Feds backpedalled faster than you could say "Recall" on that one...I think they will, too, on this, when Joe Six-Pack gets up, flicks on his Orion he bought last year at Wally-World, & the gawdam thing don't work..."Whaddya you MEAN I gotta buy a new TV, or Dee-coater thingy ?!? By Gawd, I'm callin' my Congressman !!!

I sort of seeing something like that happening depending how things play out and we might have NTSC around for a lot longer than the FCC wants unless Uncle Sugar ponies up the bucks for people to buy the converter boxes. You ought to hear my father on this, he is like the hypothetical Joe Six-Pack you described, he sees it basically in his words, "'The Man' forcing something else on the people that he shouldn't be" and I would have to say I'm inclined to agree with him.

I think a better solution is to restore the UHF channels to channel 83 when analogue cellphones go out of use and perhaps stick HDTV up there or divide the UHF spectrum into HD and NTSC divisions and leave VHF for NTSC. Again you have to come up with the logitics, there might be some UHF TV station that would need to switch channels and so on, but I think it would be easier overall and we take it from there.

I mean, my 1982 Zenith is fine for me and maybe it is because my eyes are bad being very nearsighted and worse yet, severe astigmatism (although correctible), but the HDTV picture is no better than the one on my 1982 Zenith. I hear that some roundies might even have better picture quality if tweaked just right.