Re: U.S. HDTV STANDARDS DELEGATION SCUTTLES 1920x1080 COMMON IMAGE FOR

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From: Mike McManus
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 20:26

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In article <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> poynton@vector.Sun.COM (Charles A. Poynton) writes:
>   The meaning of HDTV in the United States is not the "rejeuvenation of the 
>   domestic consumer electronics manufacturing industry."  It's the continued 
>   health of the COMPUTER industry.  Let's not botch this one.  

Amen.

We can't afford to sit around and be followers.  It's bad enough that we've
lost our advantage of being a nation that produces a large chuck of the world's
technological advances, but to now say we should sit around and become
followers instead of leaders... Ooh, makes my skin crawl!

(Sorry for the commentary, but I had to get my $.02 in...)
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