[opendtv] Re: A Perfect Storm Hits Media Businesses
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:33:47 -0400
At 11:28 AM -0400 9/1/09, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Nothing we haven't already talked about on here.
I guess you could call it the realization of a dream. Like Frank, I
spent two decades educating folks in the TV industry about emerging
technologies that would fundamentally change the ways in which we
consume media content. All of this was apparent in 1992 when I got
involved in the U.S. Advanced Television standards process.
The following is from a Videography Closing Comment published in
December of 1992. The quote is from an article published in the April
1932 issue of "Modern Mechanics and Inventions," written by David
Sarnoff.
"When television has fulfilled its ultimate destiny, a man's sense of
physical limitation will be swept away, and his boundaries of sight
and hearing will be the limits of the earth itself."
If we have learned anything during the past 60 years of preparation
for the information age, surely it must be that when we focus our
collective energy on a well defined task, America can realize it's
wildest dreams. Consider the ideas expressed as "science fiction" by
Jules Verns at the turn of the century--and the realization of those
dreams with Apollo 11 in 1969.
Sarnoff dreamed of extending our vision to the farthest corners of
the earth--we reached the moon--and saw it as it happened! Can we
afford to dream of anything less than making it possible for
individuals to share their visions with anyone . . . anytime . . .
anywhere?
Regards
Craig
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