Re: HDTV Question

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From: Greg Kwan
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:52

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>Well, first of all an analogue signal doesn't really have an infinite number
>of divisions if it's represented as a voltage or a current, because they are
>both quantized. You can't get any unit of charge less than an electron. It's
>just that the number of divisions is extremely large.

Reminds me of a saying a boss had on his whiteboard (we were the only
digital guys in an analog company):

``Analog is really digital. It's just that the sampling rate is
  Avogadro's Number.''

[He also had ``E=mc^2 +/- 1 LSB.'']

greg

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