On May 14, 7:09=A0am, George Graves <gmgrav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 23:48:21 -0700, Sandman wrote
> (in article <mr-7D2D9E.08482114052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
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> > In article
> > <637fcd65-1c97-42b2-b349-d4179d0e7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > =A0gaint...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> >> HDTV certainly is the buzzword at the moment, and if you haven=B9t
hear=
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> >> it yet, where have you been?
>
> > Only if "for the moment" is "five years ago".
>
> My satellite TV service just added about 20 new HDTV channels on Monday
ev=
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> though some (like "The Weather Channel") are kind of silly. HD is not
taki=
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> as long as color to catch-on here in the States (like I thought it
would).=
> Color broadcasting was introduced here in the USA in 1954 and it took
unti=
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> 1966 for all the major networks to go 100% color for their prime-time
> programming. =A0That's 12 years after color broadcasting started. The
netw=
orks
> had all gone HD for their prime time fare after about 5 years from the
sta=
rt
> in 1999. Now most of the so-called cable networks are quickly adding HD
> feeds. I suspect that before all of the analog VHF stations go dark next
> February, that there will be a real surge in HDTV sales.
Oddly enough, in Hawaii we can't get the CBS network affiliate in HD,
if we have cable, though I believe satellite subscribers can. It has
something to do with revenue sharing between the affiliate, KGMB, and
the local cable provider, Time Warner Oceanic Cable. They gave us HD
for the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, but since then, nothing. We
do get the other networks in HD, plus a pretty large number of other
stations, but not CBS.
--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI
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