Re: ... and this time we really mean it.
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:53 pm
Yes, it is a truly ingenious way to accomplish the task. In that respect, this truly is the end of an era. I think it marks a significant end to the age of those inventive engineering advances that produced a lot of what we have today. Analog electronics. This digital stuff, while wonderful and able to accomplish amazing things is, in reality, just too easy. It's just so easy to work around various problems/issues in the digital world. Great for the end user and the products, but I fear a lot of that great ingenuity and knowledge the "old engineering types" had has been lost forever...johnallg wrote:When you understand how they came up with the way to put the color information on the b&w signal so it would not interfere with b&w sets but let the color receivers show color, you realize just how intelligent the old engineering types were. Ingenious.cjj wrote:Part of the reason they didn't do it sooner has to do with government mandates to keep things backwards compatible. The same thing happened when they went to color broadcasts. There are far better ways to transmit the color signal, but they wouldn't work for B&W TVs. So, it was mandated that new broadcast technology had to be compatible with the older sets so people wouldn't have to buy new sets.