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12-19-2007, 12:59 AM
The history channel, animal planet, discovery, and most importantly, SCI-FI channel
joined Comcasts lineup today in my area.
The only HD I saw was sci's flash gordon, the chick playing Dale was reallly something else. The best thing I saw was Blade runner on commercial.
That brings the total to 31, inc premium and broadcast.
Worth the dollar raise in rates.
The sci fi stuff was really good, even a standard def version of Sg-1, cant wait for battlestar galactica and stargate, atlantis.
Meanwhile in USA they said that HD was going to be bigger than DVD or anything else since color, five years ago 1 OUT OF TEN were HD, today 9 out of ten.
Hard to beleive that there was a war over adopting a HD format.
Of course broadcasters didnt want it, only the prospect of using frequencies for free got the ball rolling.
Even after it was adopted you had people like the president of FOX broadcasting
mad as hell, vowing to fight it all the way, he declared that fox would only broadcast in 480p , and filed a lawsuit against the type of signal used, claiming it wasnt "robust"
enough. of course he lost, he just didnt want to pay for the conversion to HD, is all.
Wonder what ever happened to him.
And I am not surprized, broadcasters and others have fought every advance in home entertainment. It took years to get a stereo standard, even one with a lousy 27 db of
channel seperation. They were talking about "their" industrial plant ( TV sets bought by consumers!!) being obsoleted. To them a liscense for a TV station was a money tree,
if they had their way they would still be broadcasting in black and white.
Actually, stuff like mandated improvements probably saved them, without having their arms twisted we'd be living in a Japanese HD world, with their inferiour format, and broadcasters would be scrambling to play catch up:1:
joined Comcasts lineup today in my area.
The only HD I saw was sci's flash gordon, the chick playing Dale was reallly something else. The best thing I saw was Blade runner on commercial.
That brings the total to 31, inc premium and broadcast.
Worth the dollar raise in rates.
The sci fi stuff was really good, even a standard def version of Sg-1, cant wait for battlestar galactica and stargate, atlantis.
Meanwhile in USA they said that HD was going to be bigger than DVD or anything else since color, five years ago 1 OUT OF TEN were HD, today 9 out of ten.
Hard to beleive that there was a war over adopting a HD format.
Of course broadcasters didnt want it, only the prospect of using frequencies for free got the ball rolling.
Even after it was adopted you had people like the president of FOX broadcasting
mad as hell, vowing to fight it all the way, he declared that fox would only broadcast in 480p , and filed a lawsuit against the type of signal used, claiming it wasnt "robust"
enough. of course he lost, he just didnt want to pay for the conversion to HD, is all.
Wonder what ever happened to him.
And I am not surprized, broadcasters and others have fought every advance in home entertainment. It took years to get a stereo standard, even one with a lousy 27 db of
channel seperation. They were talking about "their" industrial plant ( TV sets bought by consumers!!) being obsoleted. To them a liscense for a TV station was a money tree,
if they had their way they would still be broadcasting in black and white.
Actually, stuff like mandated improvements probably saved them, without having their arms twisted we'd be living in a Japanese HD world, with their inferiour format, and broadcasters would be scrambling to play catch up:1: