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- From: cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf)
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.180025.7684@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <1inbkbINNkbj@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:00:25 GMT
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- kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- If manufacturers can say their device with a adjustment potentiometer has
- an infinite number of settings, so can I. :-)
-
- >
- >In addition, the linearity of the encoding comes into play here. With the
- >NTSC encoding scheme, not very many colors are possible. But, the number of
- >colors is going to be a function of the dynamic range of the system and is
- >therefore dependant on the bandwidth you want to allocate.
- >
- >In a digital system, it's the same way. If you allocate more bandwidth, you
- >can get more of a color range, or you can get more resolution. The nifty
- >thing about digital systems is that it permits much easier allocation of
- >bandwidth (even on the fly!), and although digital encoding generally uses
- >more bandwidth than the theoretical minimum of an analogue system, because
- >the baseband signal can be better packed into the available space, it can
- >be more efficient.
-
- I find it hard to believe that the above paragraph applies to the
- future of HDTV. I do not believe "they" would approve of a system that could
- randomly change the bandwith or the resolution. My question was more
- of "Have they decided yet, and if so, what did they decide?"
-
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