"And the media moguls would slink back into their caves."
Never before have I laughed so hard @ work that the Sation manager came down to the shop and asked me to pipe down, until I read this line.
Stop it, *please*, yer killin' me.
Cheap Engineer
Somewhere in Corporate TV land
So the response to "let's make more Linux games" is "Windows Sux"?
I run WinXP on my main Game machine, and other than a screwed-up install of UT 2 years ago, I have no problems with any games on this machine - no screwing with the registry, no downloading special drivers, nothing.
BF 1942 and Desert Combat runs like a champ on my P4 1.6...
So, as I understand it, this is a PROM?
Burning 'fuses' sounds like an original PROM - how does this help? I suppose you could stack sheets of this on top of each other and make WORM 'cube' memory...
I can't imagine any broadcaster who wouldn't pass on the same signal he sends to his transmitter on to his cable company, or uplinked to DishNet. Unless there is some serious compression done afterwards (damn digital cable) anything these guys pass into the vertical interval should make it thru most delivery methods.
And with the huge rise in the RF noise-floor out there these days, who can still get all their channels with rabbit ears, anyway?
Clinging Tenaciously to the Trailing Edge of Technology
NEW YORK, Sept. 19/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (OTC Bulletin Board: LRLSQ), today said that its Telstar 4 satellite experienced a short circuit of its primary power bus today at 8:56 am EDT, causing the satellite to cease operations. Loral Skynet immediately made capacity available to most Telstar 4 customers, many of whom have already had their services restored on Loral's Telstar 5 and Telstar 6 satellites.
Loral Skynet and Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the satellite, are working to determine the cause of the problem and to restore service on the satellite, if possible. The satellite is insured for $141 million.
Telstar 8, currently under construction at Space Systems/Loral, will replace Telstar 4, as planned, at 89 degrees West in mid-2004.
Telstar 4 coverage includes the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and southern Canada. Telstar 4 was launched in September 1995.
(Where I work, T4 is backup for CBS, and has several data channels for our Weather Graphics System - that required a retune to T5. BTW, there is *always* a "backup/replacement" satellite in the pipeline to replace existing satellites)
I run IUVCR at the TV station I work at for an Aircheck recorder; set to record in 1 hour chunks, 24hrs a day, ground down to a level that allows me to fit 7 days on a DVD-RW. Not even close to VCR quality, but good enough to make sure commercials aired, audio was okay, transmitter was on the air, etc.
I now work for a 'local network affiliate' in a 50-100 market as the Transmitter Engineer, and for the last 10 years before this job I've been the Chief Engineer at 2 other local stations. I am *right now* broadcasting a Digital Signal (as I am required to, at this point) but *not* a High-Def Digital signal.
The reason the station I work for is *not* broadcasting a HD signal, is because very little other than the network signal is *available* in any def higher than 480i, and they spent so much frickin' money just buying the *transmitter* and getting it on the tower that the extra 400-500 K$ to put in a multi-channel Digital Microwave from the Studio to the Transmitter site wasn't worth it.
These guys spent about $600k to get a small, low-power transmitter up and broadcasting (times *two* sites, BTW) and still people are picking up our signal from 40-50 miles away with $500 and up Set-top boxes with very little trouble.
In a year or 2, when the costs come down some more; when the &^$*(&%$ Set-top manufacturers get their sh*t together enough so that they work on the same signals; and when the Syndicators start providing HD versions of all their programming, we will probably bump the digital up to 720p or 1080i.
Of course, the secondary channel we send on the stream will have to stay 480i, because 1) it's a UPN and they have very little HD content, even @ the Network level and 2) we need 2 streams, because we're feeding too many cable systems down the line with both channels.
BTW, if you think the Cable Guys out there are leading the technological parade right now, understand this; these cable head ends are picking up our digital signal on set-top boxes they bought @ Best Buy, and several of 'em are using *our* STB's, because they didn't bother to try to get one until the last freakin' minute.
The *point* of this thread, however, is the stunt the Hollywood types are trying to pull on the rest of us which will, in the end , *not* work for one simple reason.
Washington will not allow *anything* to slow down/impede the progress of ntsc-to-DTV conversion because they have bet all their chips on getting that old bandwidth back and auctioning it off to greedy PCS and cellular types with fat wallets, and spending *that* money on more crap to get the re-elected next pass.
*Nothing* can stand before that, not Hollywood, not Physics, nor the Public, which will probably never see these promised Licensed decoders..
They're not *intentionally* pink. That's the color that Tower Red fades to after 5-6 years of UV exposure. AT&T stopped painting those towers, and replaced the red obstruction-at-night lighting with a top mounted strobe 24hrs. It's a lot cheaper to put a strobe on a tower than paint it every 4-5 years - why do you think that *none* of those 15 million new cellular towers ar painted anymore?
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Looking thru all the stuff recently dug out of my dad's basement, I realize I *have* one of those Zenith hearing aids - just like that.
I wonder how hard a MP3 player casemod would be....
Cheap Engineer
"And the media moguls would slink back into their caves." Never before have I laughed so hard @ work that the Sation manager came down to the shop and asked me to pipe down, until I read this line. Stop it, *please*, yer killin' me. Cheap Engineer Somewhere in Corporate TV land
Cheap Engineer
So, as I understand it, this is a PROM? Burning 'fuses' sounds like an original PROM - how does this help? I suppose you could stack sheets of this on top of each other and make WORM 'cube' memory...
(Stallman declined to be interviewed unless this article used his nomenclature throughout.) Imagine that.
I can't imagine any broadcaster who wouldn't pass on the same signal he sends to his transmitter on to his cable company, or uplinked to DishNet. Unless there is some serious compression done afterwards (damn digital cable) anything these guys pass into the vertical interval should make it thru most delivery methods.
And with the huge rise in the RF noise-floor out there these days, who can still get all their channels with rabbit ears, anyway?
Clinging Tenaciously to the Trailing Edge of Technology
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT= 104&STORY=/www/story/09-19-2003/0002020695&EDA TE=
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of
NEW YORK, Sept. 19
Loral Space & Communications (OTC Bulletin Board: LRLSQ), today said that its
Telstar 4 satellite experienced a short circuit of its primary power bus today
at 8:56 am EDT, causing the satellite to cease operations. Loral Skynet
immediately made capacity available to most Telstar 4 customers, many of whom
have already had their services restored on Loral's Telstar 5 and Telstar 6
satellites.
Loral Skynet and Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the satellite, are
working to determine the cause of the problem and to restore service on the
satellite, if possible. The satellite is insured for $141 million.
Telstar 8, currently under construction at Space Systems/Loral, will
replace Telstar 4, as planned, at 89 degrees West in mid-2004.
Telstar 4 coverage includes the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and southern Canada. Telstar 4 was launched in
September 1995.
(Where I work, T4 is backup for CBS, and has several data channels for our Weather Graphics System - that required a retune to T5. BTW, there is *always* a "backup/replacement" satellite in the pipeline to replace existing satellites)
Journalists portray the 'wack jobs' as the mainstream because it makes for a more interesting story.
When was the last time you say a news segment on the opening of a new Star Trek film *without* scenes of geeks in home-made uniforms and Spock ears?
I run IUVCR at the TV station I work at for an Aircheck recorder; set to record in 1 hour chunks, 24hrs a day, ground down to a level that allows me to fit 7 days on a DVD-RW. Not even close to VCR quality, but good enough to make sure commercials aired, audio was okay, transmitter was on the air, etc.
Sweet program, even if it's under Windows.
I now work for a 'local network affiliate' in a 50-100 market as the Transmitter Engineer, and for the last 10 years before this job I've been the Chief Engineer at 2 other local stations. I am *right now* broadcasting a Digital Signal (as I am required to, at this point) but *not* a High-Def Digital signal.
The reason the station I work for is *not* broadcasting a HD signal, is because very little other than the network signal is *available* in any def higher than 480i, and they spent so much frickin' money just buying the *transmitter* and getting it on the tower that the extra 400-500 K$ to put in a multi-channel Digital Microwave from the Studio to the Transmitter site wasn't worth it.
These guys spent about $600k to get a small, low-power transmitter up and broadcasting (times *two* sites, BTW) and still people are picking up our signal from 40-50 miles away with $500 and up Set-top boxes with very little trouble.
In a year or 2, when the costs come down some more; when the &^$*(&%$ Set-top manufacturers get their sh*t together enough so that they work on the same signals; and when the Syndicators start providing HD versions of all their programming, we will probably bump the digital up to 720p or 1080i.
Of course, the secondary channel we send on the stream will have to stay 480i, because 1) it's a UPN and they have very little HD content, even @ the Network level and 2) we need 2 streams, because we're feeding too many cable systems down the line with both channels.
BTW, if you think the Cable Guys out there are leading the technological parade right now, understand this; these cable head ends are picking up our digital signal on set-top boxes they bought @ Best Buy, and several of 'em are using *our* STB's, because they didn't bother to try to get one until the last freakin' minute.
The *point* of this thread, however, is the stunt the Hollywood types are trying to pull on the rest of us which will, in the end , *not* work for one simple reason.
Washington will not allow *anything* to slow down/impede the progress of ntsc-to-DTV conversion because they have bet all their chips on getting that old bandwidth back and auctioning it off to greedy PCS and cellular types with fat wallets, and spending *that* money on more crap to get the re-elected next pass.
*Nothing* can stand before that, not Hollywood, not Physics, nor the Public, which will probably never see these promised Licensed decoders..
They're not *intentionally* pink. That's the color that Tower Red fades to after 5-6 years of UV exposure. AT&T stopped painting those towers, and replaced the red obstruction-at-night lighting with a top mounted strobe 24hrs. It's a lot cheaper to put a strobe on a tower than paint it every 4-5 years - why do you think that *none* of those 15 million new cellular towers ar painted anymore?