[opendtv] Re: HDTV-Brochure_2005final
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:15:41 -0500
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>
>This began as a Broadcaster initiative, almost two decades ago, in
>response to the threat that the FCC might authorize frequency sharing
>in the "under-utilized" TV bands.
>
Broadcasters were involved; so were consumer-electronics interests. It
was MORE than two decades ago.
Although 1125-line (total) HDTV equipment appeared at IEEE Intercon in
New York in 1973 and 1974, the big push for HDTV in the U.S. began with
the SMPTE winter conference in San Francisco in 1981 with an NHK system
brought over by CBS. The CBS dog-and-pony shows took the rig all over
the U.S. that year. In July 1981, CBS filed at the FCC in opposition to
allowing DBS in Ku-band saying that those frequencies would be needed
for broadcast HDTV. At about the same time, Joe Donahue of RCA consumer
electronics touted the widescreen nature of HDTV, noting that it was a
difference consumers could see even in newspaper ads.
TTFN,
Mark
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