How Did This Industry Go Off Half Baked?
Rbinck, or anyone else here.
I read the first article and while very much appreciating the technical side of why SD is going to look like you're living in a Soviet bloc country, I'm puzzled at how the industry innovators at the start decided to simply leave SD out in the cold?
And it's no longer a matter of simply advising folks to upgrade to HD equipment and service. It's the utter failure to encounter the reality that 40 years of television heritage in this country is going to keep SD around for a very long time. And the answer isn’t, “Learn to live without ‘I Love Lucy.’”
So somewhere back when, the movers and shakers let their gleeful high on the new technology get the best of their judgment and innovation, if it comes down to “Sorry about the rest, but, hey, ain’t HD keeno?”
Nor is it a matter of waiting out the eventual demise of general interest in classic television. Even today’s up to date HD news coverage features cut aways to film clips done on VHS or low res digital, and the SD problem lives on and on, despite being as HD as one can get.
And no, I don't care to move another 4 feet back or disable my incadescent lighting, as if TV rules the realm to the sacrifice of everything else.
Perhaps someone here knows the ugly story of how the industry chose to back into the technology with so little care for the enormous demand and unavoidability of status quo of standard def?
Mike
Tucson
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