Posted by Steve Guidry on 11/28/05 17:00

That's true. Their mandate is to go digital. There's NO mandate to go HD.
When HD happens, it will be when there's an economic reason for everyone
involved to do all the expensive stuff that it takes to produce, transport,
and air the program in HD.

In fact, the only revenue model that will probably work for most stations is
for them to go HD for a few hours a day - - Sports, "big" movies and
"important" series shows, and a few other things that the networks make them
use HD for.

The rest of the time, we'll see them show multiple streams of digital SD,
much of which will be - - at least initially - - upconverted analog
material.

There are several reasons for this :

1) There is no real reason to go HD for game shows, soaps, and news.
2) Old material is already on analog, and there is a cost to migrating it
to digital. Only the most valuable stuff will get any real re-mastering.
The rest will just get dumped to digital.
3) Multiple signals will mean multiple revenue streams for the station.
You will likely see news, shopping, an old western, and a ladies talk show
(or some similar mix) airing at the 6 PM and 10 PM slots.

Steve


"AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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> > framexframe wrote ...
> >> ok, so what will the new NTSC be anyway? isnt that why this thread is
> >> here?
> >>
> >> today for stardard def, 4:3 aspect, it is 640x480 (or 720 for 16:9), 60
> >> fields, 29.97 fps. what will the new standard me in 2008, when ntsc
> >> changes to hi def and makes all "square" tv's obsolete?!!
> >
> > By May, 2006, the FCC has mandated that all TV broadcasters
> > broadcast DTV. This is *not necessarily* the same as HD TV.
> > Remember that there are several DTV and several more HDTV
> > standards.
>
> This is also what i have heard, so it's not a standard HDTV signal that is
> mandated, just a digital signal.
> And i also heard the government allocated 3 billion dollars for digital to
> analog convertors for those whose can't afford new tv to continue to use
> their old ntsc analog tv sets well into the future.
>
> AnthonyR.
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