[opendtv] Re: BBC Demonstrates HDTV Broadcasts over SD Channels
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:40:16 -0400
July 23, 1996 - WRAL-HD began operations. (It was broadcasting just
random bits because there was not an encoder available...the first REAL
DTV broadcast [meaningful bits in the form of pictures and sound] came a
few days later at WHD)
http://www.wral.com/station/623644/detail.html
John Willkie wrote:
>Good point, and I stand corrected on the year. WRAL-DT signed on the air in
>late 1994 -- October as I recall. They didn't get their encoders, IIRC,
>until January 1995, and I recall them being installed until early February,
>1995.
>
>John Willkie
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>From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 4:15 AM
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: BBC Demonstrates HDTV Broadcasts over SD Channels
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>>John Willkie wrote:
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>>>>2: HDTV is going to happen in Europe pretty soon. Regular transmissions
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>>>have
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>>>>been happening here for over 2 years.
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>>>terrestrial? regular transmissions of HDTV have been happening in the US
>>>since 1993 or so.
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>>Can you tell us what transmission medium was used for those 1993 regular
>>HDTV transmissions?
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>>I've worked on HDTV shows since 1989 (the first was for Japan's first
>>regularly scheduled HDTV transmission), but none were transmitted in
>>HDTV in the U.S. until well after 1993. WHD-TV, which offered the first
>>regular U.S. HD transmissions of which I'm aware, went on the air in
>>1996, and there were receivers sold that could pick up its transmissions
>>(a few were built).
>>
>>TTFN,
>>Mark
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