[BC] TV -- BUZZ (was) April 7, 2009

[Robert Meuser]

John:

It is about recovering spectrum. The rest means nothing.

R

John Vodenik wrote:
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>>The Digital Transition Fund would 1) help pay for digital-to-analog
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>>converter boxes; 2) convert low-power TV stations and TV translators (an
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>>important issue with Commerce Committee Chairman Sen.Ted Stevens); 3)
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> MAYBE, I'm missing something here...we shut off analog TV in 2009.  Spend the
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> money for D/A converter boxes.  You still have a 4 X 3 / 525/30 NTSC signal,
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> correct?  With digital, you get a 16 X 9 picture that is still ANALOG screen? 
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> Why not make NTSC into 16 X 9 ...or...go to PAL ?  It's still just analog TV. 
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> With digital, you can watch the guy in the back row at the game, picking his nose
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> clearly.  With NTSC, you just see his hand and not the color of the snot.  Sick,
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> ain't I ???
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> WHY bother??  I have been wrong more than once, so I ain't no virgin to that. 
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> Somebody please 'splaine this BIG fixation with digital, be it TV, FM, or AM IBAC.
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> I have done TV for over 20 years, and thankfully, I don't have to answer to viewers
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> about their "new and improved" picture quality.  Have they solved the cliff
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> effect yet?  
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> Just my 2 cents worth
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> John @ VOA / Delano...playing with 1 MW RF right now.
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