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- From: Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
- Message-ID: <73341@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:46:18 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1inbkbINNkbj@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- <1993Jan10.180025.7684@mtu.edu>
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- >kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >>
- >
- >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?"
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Christopher Wolf Electrical Engineer cmwolf@mtu.edu
- >
- > Quote of the hour:
- > Houghton, Michigan: Climate is what we expect, snow is what we get.
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >"A dead telephone sanitizer?" "Best kind." "But what's he doing here?"
- >"Not a lot."
- > - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- Technology is so hard to nail down. A year ago your remark would have been
- reasonable. Then the words scalable and extensible entered the HDTV digital
- bit stream and all hell broke loose. Virtually moment by moment the resolution
- and color depth can be changed. The MPEG adjusted scene by scene. and every
- unused bit given over to services you would rather not know existed. The main
- reason the FCC extended the Advanced TV study was to give time for the cresting
- wave of compressability and interleaved services.
- Bye... Ted..
-