[opendtv] Re: News: See the Big Picture? Don't Forget to Examine the Fine Print
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:45:01 -0400
> >The only reason this problem *should* decrease in the future is
> >that analog TV will cease to exist and there's a de-facto world
> >wide standard of 16:9 for digital programming.
>
> Someday. In the meantime, not even counting the installed
> base, around 90% of the TVs CURRENTLY being sold in the U.S.
> are 4:3.
And, worse, NTSC only.
That's what's so bizarre about this supposed transition. The
good news being that it's given receiver designs a chance to
improve.
Still, the only way this business about image quality and
size makes any sense is to see it with the perspective of
an on-going transition. In that NY Times article, that
perspective was completely lacking. The article made it
sound like at home, you weren't going to be able to match
the image quality and size you saw in the store, so you have
to resign yourself to this "reality." Instead of explaining
the complete story of the transition, and that by next year,
every program broadcast in analog would be simulcast in
digital (and by the way, this may already be the case in any
given market).
Bert
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