On March 19, 2010 at 00:08, BillFromGI said...
With all respect to Wogster, what is done is done, and decided is decided. His post caused me to research all the various digital broadcast formats, causing my head to literally explode. South America vs North America vs Japan vs Russia/Europe/Australia.. . There are four standards out there, neither of which is perfect in its own right, but they/we choose the way we did and we have to live with it.. .
I think the issue is that they all try to have some kind of compatability with their own analog systems, and considering that there were at least 3 different analog standards, it makes sense that there are several digital ones. As to whether done is really a done deal well, that depends, the future is a long time period.
I suspect the next advance in Television will be Internet based, where the TV contains a wireless network card, and connects to the home network, a new protocol, will run at the station that provides schedule and other information, sites will troll for that info, and provide an interface. From your TV remote you can then pick from any station anywhere in the world, either to watch or record on the TV itself. I don't suspect that this is more then 10 years from now. Want to watch the A-Team in Japanese, no problem the classic TV station from Hiroshima has it!!!!!
