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In article <530@bilver.UUCP> bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>If you consider that the LP is virtually dead now, it only lasted 41.

I never liked LPs.  Even an audiophile LP has pops & klicks, even
the first play.  It gets worse each play.  A low grade audio
cassette doesn't have terrible distractions or sound degradation.
We could have dumped LPs long ago.  The industry kept pushing
vinal.  They kept saying that it was "better".

A friend has a nice 25 inch monitor TV.  It was real expensive.
I saw some stuff on laser disk.  It was very impressive.  I saw
some stuff on video tape - super beta, VHS.  Less impressive, but
not generally distracting.  Cable TV had almost OK stations and
pretty bad ones.  Without cable, the distractions while watching
the show are almost as bad as commercials.

If over-the-air quality could be brought to laser disk standards
it would be an overnight success.  If it was cable-only, I'd
probably buy a better TV & spend the $30-$40 a month.  Heck, I
might even watch it.

If HDTV doesn't have some sort of correction system built in,
then it will be no better than cable as it is now.  Simply
increasing bandwidth on a noisy medium does not remove noise.

If you create un-expandable standards, they will be bad.  The
rope cut to length is too short.  Technology will outstrip our
current ideas of what is easily "as much as anyone can afford".  If
you want to build a cheap TV with the new standard, you should be
able to ignore things - like error correction, or some of the
resolution, or one of the sound channels, or the closed captioned
channel...  On transmission, you have to be able to omit stuff,
like error correction, resolution, sound channels...

Stephen.
suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com