[BC] HDRadio

[JYRussell@academicplanet.com]

I still wonder about using the 'converter box' stuff.  I guess you're
telling me there will be no digital decoders available, except as included
inside the new wide tv's and such.  If I can get s-vid, Pb, composite,etc,
out of the thing.. and into the TV... wouldn't I have gotten a decent deal
on the TV, and still made the digital folks happy??
Jason


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan Tacker" <stacker at krvt.com>
To: "'Broadcasters' Mailing List'" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:06 PM
Subject: RE: [BC] HDRadio


> Wait a minute!  You mean that after the "drop dead" date my B/W Admiral
> won't work anymore?
>
> I knew I shouldn't have sprung for that new picture tube.  But you gotta
> love any TV that swivels.  Big comfortable knobs too.
>
> What am I going to do with all this tuner cleaner?
>
> <g>
>
> Stan
>

>
> This is a BBC experience.
>
> Several decades ago, the BBC went to an increased resolution service.
They
> ran two parallel networks.  They then did surveys, and when there was a
> small number of old receivers left looking at the old network, they had a
> deal where you could bring in a working old receiver and get a credit
> towards purchase of the higher resolution receiver.
>
> After a decent interval, the BBC shut down the old facilities.  They
called
> this the "widows and pensioners strategy".
>
> I think that there will be  hell raised by citizens when the drop dead
> arrives for HDTV.  The HD model is what I call the 1950 family model; the
> entire family gathered around the entertainment center to watch a single
> set.
>
> Our guy who runs the technical end of our Alaska Rurals Communications
> Service is pretty typical.  They have seven tv sets in the house, age
> running from three years old to old ones they got for free from someone.
>
> People are going to be highly p****d when they realize the color tv in the
> kitchen they got from Cosco won't work anymore.
>
> But my friend says it won't make much difference in his family.  The kids
> don't watch network tv anyway.  DVD's, video games, and MP3 players are
ALL
> they use.
>
> One thing that is killing radio more then anything else is that the world
is
> becoming a VIDEO culture.  Look at the popular culture live concert scene.
> Compare the visuals on stage today with a Beatles concert.
>
> By the way, I was talking with a senior FCC engineer several years ago in
> Anchorage.  He noted that between the origin of color tv transmission by
> CBS, it was 25 years before the majority of television sets were color.
>
>
> Chuck Lakaytis
> Director of Engineering
> Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc.
> Anchorage, Alaska
> 907 277 6300
> 907 301 4339 (cell)

>
> I was talking about how the HDTV people were able to run mutliple
> transmitters...most on totally different bands, yet still were able to
make
> money.  Even with multiple channels to boot.  They seem to have been able
to
> make it work.
>
> I still dont understand why the government has to get involved (paying
for)
> with making sure Larry Lunchbox and Aunt Bee get their TV.
>
>
> On 8/2/06, DHultsman5 at aol.com <DHultsman5 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 8/2/2006 7:05:56 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> > kwinrich at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > Wonder  how the the HDTV people did it then........
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > HDTV  has a government mandate for analog sign off.   If you  are in the
> > TV
> > receiver business you will build sets....and none of us can deny  that
> > prices
> > have dropped significently.
> >
> > Also  when it comes shut down times,   Aunt Bee and Uncle  Fred  will be
> > able
> > to buy, with a subsidy from Congress,  the grantor  of all funds,  an
HDTV
> > tuner or converter box that will output NTSC thru  and channel 3 or 4
> > modulator
> > ketterboxed on their old General Electric 25 inch  4:3 set.   All taken
> > care
> > of by the FCC and Congress.
> >
> > If radio had a 10  to 20 year mandate to get off analog,  I   know that
> > the
> > receivers would be out there sooner.
> >
> > Dave
> >