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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:12:10 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <73341@cup.portal.com> Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com 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?"
-
- Well, to answer your question, no they haven't decided yet. But, to discuss
- your statement, it would be very nice to have a system that could work with
- varying bandwidths and resolutions. It would mean that the same standard
- could be used for broadcast television as would be used for a wider bandwidth
- cable system. It could mean that black and white programs could be shown
- with sqrt(3) times the resolution of color programs, without using any
- additional bandwidth, just by reallocating color information into resolution.
- And, existing NTSC programs could be broadcast over the HDTV network without
- using up the full channel bandwidth, since it wouldn't be needed.
- --scott
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