22 Dec
2006
22 Dec
'06
2:24 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Richard wrote:
That's not television, that's data processing.
Haven't seen any analogue hard disk drives recently...
You don't need a stereo for that. A stereo is only useful for audio
playback of quality material.
The matter
with cell phones is that there is always innovation. A TV set
is a TV set, there are no news on that.
...at least if you think like a TV
manufacturer.
If you think like a computer manufacturer and see video as just
another data stream, then there's tons going on in TV electronics. Same to a
stereo, what else would
you want into a stereo?
Recording radio programs from a schedule into an internal
hard disk
for later playback? Maybe USB MP3
playing!
Now you're starting to get it. embranced the digital revolution. They are still
thinking of TV
"features" in terms of analog circuitry.
Because that's TV. My 1950s TV set is more useful than any modern TV
because it really displays what it receives without any delay and just
what it gets. Todays sets need seconds to switch channels, artificially
blur the image ("50Hz->100Hz conversion"), show artifacts (deinterlacer),
have highly nested unusable menus and so on...
interfaces beyond existing analog interfaces. This is
why its cheaper
to build a media PC and have it act as a DVR than it is to buy a
"consumer electronics" DVR that talks to your existing PCs.
You really don't know what you say. Do you think it's progressive to
download firmware updates into your TV set? Having to boot it? Fighting
against all kind of software bugs?
Christian