the_lyniezian
Banned
Could this work? How does the broadcasting industry and the programming one is likely to see as a result change?
(One hopes less rubbish...)
(One hopes less rubbish...)
What do you mean, exactly?
Because, besides analogue broadcast, there is digital broadcast, analogue cable, digital cable, analogue satellite, and digital satellite.
Take away the digital part and you still have regular cable and satellite with Japan possessing the world's one and only commercial HDTV channel.
So, basically, the late 1980s.
Maybe we might have a Channel 6 on terrestrial?
You can't run that many national terrestrial channels with a sufficiently strong and uninterrupted signal for each - same with radio stations. That was the big problem: it was limited to about half a dozen.
French seemed to manage OK- mind you, they use the SECAM format, which might have used less bandwidth...
Umm, the colour used for TV does not really matter in the case of non-NTSC countries. In the case of NTSC, it almost exclusively uses System M (i.e. 525 lines, and a smaller bandwidth than most systems). PAL and SECAM, OTOH, are pretty diverse and can accomodate any TV standard. Example: Brazil, which uses System M, but (unlike its neighbouring countries) uses PAL for its colour standard. What matters most is what broadcast standards are used. Most European countries, for example, use System B for VHF and System G (or System H) for UHF. This created an interesting situation in, for example, Germany during the Cold War, where both West and East Germany used this typical setup yet used different colour standards - PAL in the case of West Germany, and SECAM in the case of East Germany. Thus, an East German could watch West German TV, but it would come out in B&W. Same thing for those West Germans who dared to watch East German TV. In fact, it could be argued that it was this situation vis-à-vis TV that helped with reunification.
Now, to get back on topic - if you want one way to get non-digital HDTV working, try the French 819-line system. For its time, it was pretty innovative.
1. I knew some details of that first paragraph.
2. Why West Germans "daring" to watch East German TV? Some sort of anti-communist legislation, or just that it was pretty dire? (I'd guess the latter- especially given the Westerner Denis Domaschke's comment on Estt German news- "der selber Quatsch" -the "same old crap" as the subs put it.)
3. Do different colour standards affect the bandwidth? (I bet not)
4. Last paragraph-please elaborate!