Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
Not getting into another long drawn out debate with a hardheaded type who refuses to pay attention.
No I wasnt on "RCA'S boards deciding things, but it was pretty much public knowledge ,
and in every review of an RCA product I read, they came up with a way to exclude DBX,
used a stereo solution that had even worse channel seperation than the DBX chip,
and saved them a ton of money,
THIS WAS PRETTY MUCH PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AT THE TIME.
If it's public knowledge, then how come that Wikipedia citation makes no mention of this? It indicates that all analog stereo TVs included a royalty payment to dbx -- the exclusions would be those using digital solutions. This supports my recollection of the articles I read at that time indicating Zenith/dbx supplied their own processing circuits to other manufacturers, and other licensees sold their own lower cost MTS decoding boards to OEMs as well. Just because you don't see the Zenith/dbx trademark on the TV doesn't mean that Zenith/dbx weren't collecting a royalty payment at some juncture.

Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
And as for the dollar, do some research, my estimate was fudged from the actual,
truth is, the dollar has probably lost more than 3/4 of its value in the last twenty
years.
WHEN GAS recently went up the papers reported that it was, after inflation, THE SAME AS 1980.
In 1980 it was a dollar or so, now its three plus.
"fudged" is the operative term here, because you seem to be pulling those numbers out of your back side! I'll admit that my inflation figure was off -- a 1984 dollar is now worth $2.09 rather than my rounded figure of $1.75, a variance of 19%. But, of course, you were claiming that a 1984 dollar was worth 4x what it's now worth , which means that you were only off by about 92%!

And BTW, a 1980 dollar is now worth $2.59, not more than triple; and a 1988 dollar (which actually comes from 20 years ago) is now worth $1.80. These numbers come straight out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' inflation calculator, so I've done my research. Should be amusing to see what angle you take to perpetuate your "dollar has lost 3/4 of its value in the last 20 years" myth! I'll gladly correct myself when I erroneously report something, but the waiting game is now on to see how you spin and fuzzymath and outright lie yourself out of this one -- this should be fun!

Y'know you can still truthfully claim that your 4x inflation is correct by telling us which planet you're actually from! After all, my facts and figures seem to more grounded in Earth-bound reality, and you're the one claiming to be from a different planet than me. C'mon, are you from within this solar system, or another one within the Andromeda Galaxy? Or gosh, did you actually traverse multiple galaxies to grace this board with your unintentional comedy? We gots to know!