[ale] Digital TV...

[Unix Guru Dude]

}Geoffrey Myers wrote:
}> 
}> This off the list subject, but....
}> 
}> At the little get together at Denny's after the meeting last night, there
}> was a short discussion regarding digital TV and I had mentioned that there
}> was alot of talk a while back, and then it just died.  I received the
}> following from a company mail list regarding this subject:
}> 
}> >          *** DIGITAL TV STANDARDS -- Federal regulators formally proposed
}> >          standards today to govern television broadcasters' transition from
}> >          analog broadcast technology to high-resolution, digital
}> >          technology.  The standards, developed during the last eight years
}> >          by a coalition of companies and researchers known as the "grand
}> >          alliance," are intended to insure a uniform transition to the
}> >          digital technology, which will let TV stations transmit pictures
}> >          almost as sharp as the 35-millimeter images seen in movie
}> >          theaters.  The alliance includes AT&T, General Instrument,
}> >          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Philips Consumer
}> >          Electronics, David Sarnoff Research Center, Thomson Consumer
}> >          Electronics and Zenith Electronics. [NY Times]
}> 
}
}If you're refering to the interactive digital television, let me know.  That's
}what I work on.  We're up and running in customer homes...

When you say 'interactive digital television,' do you mean a digital signal
that is translated to an analog television?  Or do you mean you folks
actually have digital televisions in customer homes?  The excerpt above
refers to the latter, a whole new technology in televisions....

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}Robert L. Harris
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