Why the comparison between color and HD had a clear winner

[OvenMaster]

I've often thought about stuff like this. Way back when, engineers had their own brains and a slide rule, and look what they managed to give us! Now, with the CAD programs you mention, and computers for research and number crunching, marketing data, polls, demographics, surveys, etc., it seems to me that designers (not just electronics, but all sorts of consumer goods, from light bulbs to locomotives) always try to take the easiest way out of a problem and always put saving every last cent in the forefront.

Restricting my thoughts to television, to me all HDTV is is television run by computer chips, an evolution rather than a revolution, and driven by cash flow, at that. If it had been driven instead by the arts and the sciences of electronics and television design, just imagine what we could have gotten instead, and perhaps ushered in a new golden era!

Tom