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Article #4287Re: I don't need HDTV!
From: Fred Fierling
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 06:22
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 1990 06:22
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In article <BOWERS.90Mar16105816@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov>, bowers@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Al Bowers) writes: > > I'd vote for a clean break from the current NTSC standard in the new > HDTV standard. Give me anywhere from 500 to 1000 lines horizontal > resolution and I could be happy with that until I'm old and gray... This question comes up a lot doesn't it? Do you scrap the old technology and design a new, more refined and technically superior one, or do you compromise your design to maintain backwards compatibility? I hope the "clean break" approach wins out too. What a engineer's nightmare it would be to match up the side panels to the NTSC center. -- Fred Fierling uunet!van-bc!mplex!fff Tel: 604 875-1461 Fax: 604 875-9029 Microplex Systems Ltd 265 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 1A7, Canada
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!philmtl!atha!aunro!alberta!ubc-cs!van-bc!mplex!fff From: fff@mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.graphics,comp.std.internat,rec.video Subject: Re: I don't need HDTV! Summary: The recurrent question Message-ID: <377@mplex.UUCP> Date: 17 Mar 90 06:22:49 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <BOWERS.90Mar16105816@drynix.dfrf.nasa.gov> Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd Lines: 15