[opendtv] Re: Charles W. Rhodes on Digital TV

Cliff Benham wrote:

> I can still recall the prophetic words of the late Julie Barnathan of ABC who
> said "HDTV is coming, simply because it is coming."
>
> http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/digital_tv/F_Rhodes-04.06.05.shtml
>
> That is all there is to say about it.

Not sure what you are saying. Actually, what the article is a bit more specific:

"Julie must be gloating along with Jenkins and Baird. They were prophets before 
their time. Joe Flaherty of CBS also prophesized when, in the 1980s, he said 
that by 2000, the worst pictures in American homes will be from broadcast 
stations. Joe is still with us, and he is also still a prophet.

"Those soft-looking NTSC pictures, up-converted for DTV, really turn me off 
now, and I find that we are watching DVD or true HDTV."

Analog TV was the equivalent of AM radio, yet analog TV stayed with us long 
after people had grown used to hifi radio sound over radio and sharp computer 
graphics. Both of which had occurred by the 1980s.

Of course HDTV (or anything better than NTSC) would be big, and by the way, it 
is. Not because someone at ABC passed an edict, but because the consumer, even 
if clueless before seeing the light, is not blind. I've read plenty of articles 
about how people used to prefer the band-limited sound of AM broadcasts in the 
old days, because any high frequency content was always associated with noise 
and interference, in AM radios. But eventually, the most jaded consumers do 
learn, if there's enough of an improvement. And if the new gear is affordable.

I'd been looking forward to HDTV since 1986. And I hadn't even heard of Julie 
Barnathan. I'd heard about it at an IEEE symposium back then, and read about it 
in the Transactions of the CE Society.

Bert

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