Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
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.



"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!
Beleive it or not "Wikipedia" is not the end all be all of knowledge.
Its whatever someone wants to put into it, and its quite limited..
Typical of this board, I WAS THERE.
I saw the TV 'S, you think I am making this up? Why would I?
NOW memory fades, but I remember this paticular incident because of the outrage I felt
at the time, another case of RCA going for the lowest common denominator.
We had a fight to get a stereo standard, broadcasters fought it tooth and nail,
and heres RCA coming out with something that just about negated having stereo sound,
so typical of RCA, the guys who came out with a videodisc system with a stylus

AND the other thing in my life besides HT and audio is economics and world events,
If you dont know about the massive inflation that we;ve been sufferring from for awhile now you need to read up, and not just "govt" sources.
You must be a liberal, they dont understand that the govt lies as a matter of policy.
Again I was THERE, trust me the dollar has lost at least 3/4 of its value since the 80's,
if you had lived in the eighties you'd understand that.
If you did live in the 80's and dont know that, you need to pay more attention