"My only question is, what's up with the Friday slots? Aren't those slots where shows usually die?"
On Fox and UPN, yes, but the Sci-Fi channel, which only has to get good-for-cable ratings, not good-for-broadcast numbers, seems to be having great success with those slots.
Unfortunately, if your present phone doesn't support GPS location for 911 purposes you'd better hope nothing ever goes wrong with it because you won't be able to get it fixed, you'll be forced to "upgrade" or go phoneless, at least here in the U.S.
"Are you really suggesting that the govt. be in charge of deciding what good art is..."
A description of how things used to be is not automatically an assertion that things should be that way today. If I were to tell you that there was a worldwide outbreak of influenza in the early 20th century would you assume that I was hoping for another epidemic?
"Plus, how are people sitting in the dark going to get POWER for their TVs? And how many people are going to keep a set of rabbit ears around for the occasional hurricane?"
That's what those little 5" battery operated BW portables are for.
"Current FM in the US is 88-108 MHz... a mere 10 MHz..",P>But only for values of 10 sufficiently large enough to equal 20. For instance, what you get after subtracting 88 from 108.
By the way, there probably will be more FM stations between 59 and 88 MegaHertz, but they'll be in use by the police and fire departments and rescue squads and such.
I've recently had two color video monitors (the TV type, not the computer type) go bad and so I'm currently using a VCR and a 5" BW portable with my cable feed so I for one welcome our long time BW/Color compatibility overlords.
"No one is ever going to be forced to broadcast HDTV. They are being told by the FCC to go digital."
But of course it was sold to the public as "we're going to destroy your old analog TV system but that's okay because the new system is going to be super duper fabulicious high definition".
"The UHF channels which carry ATSC are more prone to multipath interference. This means that if there is anything between you and the tower, such as trees, your signal is degraded much more that it was with VHF."
You are confusing multipath and signal blocking. UHF, being higher in frequency than VHF, is more directional, just like with audio frequencies. A VHF signal will "wrap around" a tree and keep going (like bass from a sub-wooofer), where a UHF signal will be blocked. Multipath, on the other hand, is where the signal gets to you directly from the transmitting antenna and also by travelling from the transmitter at an angle to the direct signal, encountering a building or passing airplane and getting bounced at another angle and reaching the receiver slightly later than the direct signal. It shows up on a video screen as "ghosts".
Multipath is sometimes the only way to get a UHF signal.
Better yet they should take it all in whichever X-box is the hot new release when they finally actually get the $75 million gift certificate and then turn around and eBay them cheap so that retailers have to drop their prices to compete and pressure MS to drop the wholesale price so that MS loses even more money on them. The cheaper the console gets the more outrageous the high game prices appear so game sales slip or prices have to come down and MS loses licensing fees. Everybody wins except MS.
"So now it looks like we are going to have revisit the business model for the way back machine and work out how to float a littigation fund."
Speaking of litigation, isn't there a danger of the creators of Mr. Peabody and Sherman dragging them into court one of these days over the use of the term "Wayback Machine"?
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You mean spaceship comes to Earth and fights Nazis? Already been done, it was called Enterprise.
On Fox and UPN, yes, but the Sci-Fi channel, which only has to get good-for-cable ratings, not good-for-broadcast numbers, seems to be having great success with those slots.
...probably thought that watching the guy swallow the mouse was really cool!, right?
Firefly at 7 doesn't start until next Friday night, July 22nd, 2005.
Unfortunately, if your present phone doesn't support GPS location for 911 purposes you'd better hope nothing ever goes wrong with it because you won't be able to get it fixed, you'll be forced to "upgrade" or go phoneless, at least here in the U.S.
There is but Geordi is still using it because his bionic eyeballs haven't been invented yet. Perhaps you could substitute a small engine air cleaner.
Keeping the tube filaments partially heated was as much for extending tube life as it was to speed up turn on time.
A description of how things used to be is not automatically an assertion that things should be that way today. If I were to tell you that there was a worldwide outbreak of influenza in the early 20th century would you assume that I was hoping for another epidemic?
Just as well. They'd never have seen a penny of royalties.
That's what those little 5" battery operated BW portables are for.
The person you replied to included analog cable frequencies as well as broadcast.
By the way, there probably will be more FM stations between 59 and 88 MegaHertz, but they'll be in use by the police and fire departments and rescue squads and such.
On the older sets, perhaps. The new stuff just throws up a blue screen if the pre or post demod signal level drops too low.
How much for one without HDCP (or any other kind of) copy protection?
I'm sure that the Federal Communications Commission would beg to differ.
I've recently had two color video monitors (the TV type, not the computer type) go bad and so I'm currently using a VCR and a 5" BW portable with my cable feed so I for one welcome our long time BW/Color compatibility overlords.
But of course it was sold to the public as "we're going to destroy your old analog TV system but that's okay because the new system is going to be super duper fabulicious high definition".
You are confusing multipath and signal blocking. UHF, being higher in frequency than VHF, is more directional, just like with audio frequencies. A VHF signal will "wrap around" a tree and keep going (like bass from a sub-wooofer), where a UHF signal will be blocked. Multipath, on the other hand, is where the signal gets to you directly from the transmitting antenna and also by travelling from the transmitter at an angle to the direct signal, encountering a building or passing airplane and getting bounced at another angle and reaching the receiver slightly later than the direct signal. It shows up on a video screen as "ghosts".
Multipath is sometimes the only way to get a UHF signal.
Not for those of us who use "cable ready" televisions and VCRs and who don't even have (and certainly don't want) a set-top box.
Take it out and use it every once in a while, the capacitors shouldn't sit unused for years like that and then be subjected to full voltage.
Are you talking about using a UHF antenna to receive VHF channels?
Better yet they should take it all in whichever X-box is the hot new release when they finally actually get the $75 million gift certificate and then turn around and eBay them cheap so that retailers have to drop their prices to compete and pressure MS to drop the wholesale price so that MS loses even more money on them. The cheaper the console gets the more outrageous the high game prices appear so game sales slip or prices have to come down and MS loses licensing fees. Everybody wins except MS.
Speaking of litigation, isn't there a danger of the creators of Mr. Peabody and Sherman dragging them into court one of these days over the use of the term "Wayback Machine"?
Sounds more like a reversion to the way it was back when.
He says "I'm totally behind the record companies on this. The royalties they've paid me and my descendants over the years are now in jeopardy."