[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:52:42 -0400
On 3/31/2011 11:12 AM, dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Kon writes:
"The difference between you and me is that you are a complete Apple
fanboy, incapable of objectively discussing Apple and its competitors.
I don't have that problem (on my desk I have two ipads, three
iphone4s, two n900s, an android tablet and a nokia e7)."
This quote is a brilliant example of what is wrong with our media
distribution technologies!
Dan
The real problem is there is no one single standard embodying the best
of all the technologies.
If there were, everything would 'just' work and every type of device
would be compatible with all the others..
This has been brought home to me solidly by the many postings on
professional lists that deal with the playback, restoration and
conservation of programs on "dead" media; i.e. videotape, audiotape and
analog disk recordings.
There are so many varieties of formats that finding a working player for
some is impossible.
Suppose each country had its own different standard of physical
measurement, or of time and frequency?
What is an imperial gallon anyway?
Look at how badly editing, time code and standards conversion were
screwed up by making 59.94 the "standard" for NTSC video.
This was done in 1953 because RCA was overly concerned about the
appearance of a 920 kHz beat pattern in pictures on early, pre-color B&W
TV sets. Not a color set problem, a B&W set problem!
Editing, timecode and standards conversion would have been much easier
if the color subcarrier frequency had been left at its initial frequency
of 3.583125 mHz because H would still be 15,750 and V would still be 60.
The problem is there are far too many "standards" in the world to have
universal compatibility.
Until there can be universal agreement on how best to accomplish a given
technical process, the world is doomed to having millions of
"standards", none of which is compatible with the others.
Cliff
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