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- From: k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
- Subject: Re: HDTV in Japan
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:50:57 GMT
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- tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry) writes:
-
- > In article <VBoRXB4w165w@batpad.lgb.ca.us> larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Gre
- > >I know that there is currently sat-broadcast HDTV in Japan, but I'm
- > >wondering... it seems that the (US) FCC will pick an American
- > >standard for HDTV that is different than the Japanese standard
- > >(because the Japanese standard is old and uses analog, where the
- > >standards proposed are digital). Has there been anything in the
- > >Japanese papers or trades about what might happen if (when) the US
- > >picks a different standard? Will Japan still stay with the old
- > >standard or is there a move towards a global standard?
- >
- > No global standardization is likely, but Japanese researchers at NTT
- > are working full bore on a fully digital standard called Super High
- > Definition (SHD) which will be incompatible with everything: the US's
- > new digital HDTV, Japan's own analog HDTV, and good old NTSC.
- > Consumers in Japan are not being told that HDTV is already scheduled
- > for replacement with SDH because it could hurt HDTV sales (I got this
- > out of a Nomura market analysis). In fact, despite what you hear,
- > Nomura at least was fairly impressed with the technology being
- > researched by the US but questioned our insistence on backward
- > compatibility with NTSC. We shall see. Anyone taking bets that the
- > Japanese adopt our standard in the end?
- >
- I was under the impression that the US delayed their announcement of a
- HDTV standard and provided funds to RCA to do research becuase they were
- annoyed with the Japanese destroying their TV manufacturers until only
- RCA was left. I am sure that they will adopt an incompatible format; I
- am not a technical guy and couldn't begin to speculate on the
- implications, however.
-
- k3amichi@student.business.uwo.ca (Kentaro Nakamichi)
- Western Business School -- London, Ontario
-