16 Dec
2011
16 Dec
'11
4:20 p.m.
On 16 Dec 2011 at 22:25, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, OK, it may be obsolete _for broadcasting_, but
there must sitll
be stuff around that uses iy. This is classiccmp after all, I am sure
there are similar people who messaround with old TV and video
equipment (I know for a fact there are people ove rhere to run 405
line System A sets, for all there have been no system A broadcasts for
30 years or so).
I don't imagine that it will be too many decades before
*broadcasting* in the sense of off-the-air local radio/TV
transmissions will be obsolete, at least in the US.
The economic model has changed so that networks tend to put more
capital into cable/satellite TV because they realize a dual stream of
revenue--by advertising and also by cable license fees. The result
is that the normal commercial networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX) are
broadcasting what is largely garbage. (A look at OTA broadcast
programs will be more than adequate to illustrate that).
Although DTV is generally better color-wise, compression artifacts
really ruin things. OTA reception during windy or rainy periods
reall suffers.
It's strange, but from here it looks as if broadcast radio will
outlast broadcast TV. And my opinion of OTA radio here in the US is
even worse than that of OTA TV.
--Chuck