HDTV Magazine Archive & History

Choosing A New DVD for HDTV

Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:05:05 -0800

It is a perilous leap, no question. But as long as both the opening performance of the new is superior to the old and the headroom for the new is deemed worthy of the risk, then the only smart thing to do is to go for the new and drop the old.

2005 - And What About This Subsidy and a Date Certain?

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 06:10:29 -0800

I am no apologist for Congress, CEA, the manufacturers, or broadcasters, but I have been around long enough to know that this issue is very complex and not very well understood.

The entire reason you have HDTV today is because Eddie Fritts, CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters sold Congress on the idea that free television is essential to our democracy. Free broadcasting provides entirely free signals to anyone who can receive them, be that in their home or in some group home, or whatever the scene is. The point is that an informed electorate is essential to democracy and Eddie convinced the FCC and Congress in 1987 that free TV was threatened until it could compete in the HDTV arena that was just starting to show itself. HDTV was much better fit to cable and DBS (when it would come), and, if wildly popular, could walk away with the power that free TV has to buy original programming and to run a free news service which has accountability (public airwaves-public service) to the govenrment, which the cable news does not.

2001 - Thoughts on HDTV

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:45:27 -0800

Last time on these pages I said HDTV was a love affair between a box of lights and wires and we humans. Replacing NTSC television with a completely incompatible HDTV standard is like changing the side of the road upon which we drive for the sake of the view. This nation is doing that at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars. Not before a leisurely evening of enjoyment with HDTV in their own home do people know why this transition is fully under way, and why it is needed.

1999 -- Chips Ahoy (VSB vs. COFDM)

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:59:33 -0800

This is one of many articles written about the once considerable 8-VSB vs. COFDM controversy. That controversy is laid to rest in this nation with 8-VSB clearly being the choice to nearly everyone's satisfaction. I say nearly everyone, because in...

2004 - September -- Is There a Super Service Coming?

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:30:53 -0800

There is a growing concern that too much compression is becoming the greatest threat to the HDTV revolution. Displays are getting better but the signal to drive them is getting worse. Bit rates from satellite suppliers have recently been calculated...

2002 - HDTV, A Love Story?

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:10:59 -0800

This article by Dale Cripps appeared in the June, 2002 edition of Highdef.Org Magazine. This publication goes to all of the Hollywood community. ____________________________________________ HDTV brings out the best in people. They light up and gush over its beauty and...

CONSULTING - Dale Cripps

Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:06:50 -0800

For more than twenty years Dale E. Cripps has consulted leaders in USA, Japan, Taiwan, and Europe about the HDTV revolution now sweeping the world.

1995 -- Being Wright For HDTV

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:43:55 -0800

Radio spectrum is the chief asset of the American broadcast system. As long as available it has been granted free to qualified applicants in the interest of public service. Without radio spectrum the broadcast business would disappear. The more spectrum broadcasters can have, the better it is... for them. That view must be kept in mind when divining the meaning behind statements touching upon radio spectrum.

2002 - The Transition To Digital Television (a cable view)

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:25:13 -0800

Digital television (DTV) technology has the capability to provide clear, sharp, cinema-like pictures as well as CD-quality sound. It can also be used to compress video signals, allowing providers to offer multiple video programming streams in the same 6 MHz slot now occupied by one analog channel.

1995 - HDTV - The Big Wave Breaking (2002)

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:17:39 -0800

When RCA announced the formation of the NBC radio network in 1926, they wrote: "The market for receiving sets in the future will be determined largely by the quantity and quality of the programs broadcast. We say quantity because they...

1994 - Technology and the Future of Broadcasting by Dr. Joseph Flaherty, CBS, Inc.

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:45:37 -0800

Television broadcasting is technology-past, present, and future Every frame of every program and every syllable of every word broadcast is delivered through a vast complex of ever changing and ever improving technology, and it has always been thus. Today's debates...

1996 - The Digital HDTV Grand Alliance--Robert Graves Commerce Committee Testamony

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:39:52 -0800

By Robert Graves Before the Commerce Committee, United States House of Representatives Good morning. My name is Robert Graves and I represent the digital HDTV Grand Alliance-AT&T, General Instrument, MIT, Philips, Sarnoff, Thomson, and Zenith-the partners who developed the digital...

1998 - CBS DTV/HDTV Rollout--How, Why, & When by Joseph Flaherty, Senior vp, CBS. Inc.

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:22:59 -0800

By Joseph Flaherty April 6, 1998 Snell & Wilcox says it all! The Dinosaurs are gone! Adapt or Die! Unlike the dinosaurs, CBS doesn't live in the past, and won't become extinct! As you have just heard from Mike Jordan...

1991 - A World Of Change By Joseph A. Flaherty

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:06:46 -0800

By Joseph A. Flaherty CBS, Inc. High definition television is the latest major advance in world telecommunications. Changes in technology, changes in culture, changes in our perception of the world, all taking place more rapidly with every passing day, are...

1991 -Technical Trends by Mori Morizono, Sony (Retired)

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 08:06:55 -0800

I present here remarks from one of Japan's most celebrated technologist, "Mori" Morizono, Sony (now retired). He spoke on June 11, 1987 (yes, I said 1987) at the Montreux Symposium, Montreux, Switzerland. Only a part of his far-reaching vision has...