[opendtv] Re: --FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels

  • From: "John Willkie" <jmwillkie@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:52:07 -0700

Am I the only person who has noticed that all HDTV sets (by definition) are
16:9 and that SDTV sets are 4:3 by default?

John Willkie

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Subject: [opendtv] Re: --FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels


Bob Miller wrote:

> On a recent visit to a Best Buy in New York they had to look
> for an OTA
> receiver. They knew they had one. It was setting near a sales
> desk with
> a pile of other things on it. No one knew much about it. It
> was the only one they had thats for sure.

I had a similar experience at Best Buy. And worse, they would
only sell the STB with a big, ugly, 4:3 HD monitor (they
hadn't gotten the word, evidently, that 16:9 was the DTV
future).

Bert


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