P3D Re: The cost of HDTV

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|I am not sure this (quoted below) is true.
|
|TV sets last an awfully long time these days. I have a ten-year-old,
|20-inch
|NEC that is still going strong.

Yup - I have a 15" SONY trinitron, circa 1976, that still looks
great, although the ultrasonic remote cratered many years ago. Since
I use it on channel 3 from my satellite dish that's a moot point,
though. 

|
|Tony Shapps, or somebody, can help us out here, but I think the 405-line
|transmissions
|continued well into the '70s.
|

I read once that since people in the UK pay a per set licensing
fee, the government knew where the sets were and what standard
they were using. I seem to recall that the last user of the 405 line
standard was an elderly lady who was given a "modern" set so they
could finally turn off the last transmitter. Maybe Tony has more details
on this.

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   4:53 PM Thursday, October 1, 1998
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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