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IP: the mess of digital tv standards is getting worse
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 22:25:33 -0500
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:44:21 -0500 From: Richard Jay Solomon <richard () goodread com> Subject: the mess of digital tv standards is getting worse This is what happens when you refuse to compromise early in the standards game and choose a uniform system for the future. Not only do we have 18 hdtv standards, but another half dozen to convert them for PCs, & vice versa to TVs. What a mess! And what the industry refuses to acknowledge is that each conversion DEGRADES the image further. It is physiological impossible to de-interlace interlaced images without reducing the resolution. All this could have been solved if hdtv/dtv never had interlace at all and adopted square pixels. See also today's Wall Street Journal for more nonsense on a new web tv chip by Broadcom-- their decoder box for a tv set costs as much as a full low-end PC with a monitor. Richard
--Add-in cards could let PCs tune in digital TV next year-- LG Semicon Co. Ltd. will roll out a chip set at Comdex this month that it hopes will be used to bring digital TV to next year's personal computers. Though new to the market, LG and other chip makers are betting that DTV will provide a sorely needed new application to drive PC sales in 1999. http://www.edtn.com/shared/redirect?url=http://www.edtn.com/news/nov04/1104
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BROADCOM SET TO UNVEIL TV-INTERNET CHIP Issue: Interactive TV Promising the capability of having multiple scenes from various channels on a television screen, Broadcom Corporation is designing advanced chips that may give a big boost to interactive TV. WebTV and a few other systems already show Internet material on televisions. Broadcom's new chip will allow a mixture of television channels, Internet signals, VCR video and DVD movies to be intermingled on the screen in a look similar to Microsoft "Windows." The signals can be sized and arranged as the user wants. Cable companies and other technology companies are becoming more focussed on interactive TV and are planning a new generation of cable boxes for mid-1999. Broadcom will hurry production to have its chips included in those boxes. [SOURCE: Wall Street Journal (B3), AUTHOR: Frederick Rose] <http://www.wsj.com/>
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