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[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 TSassoon at aol.com wrote:
> they did, in primetime at least, it would be a significant improvement. A
> better question is why they're allowed to continue selling 1.33 NTSC sets, only a
> year and change before they go dark?

Legislation does exist which prevents selling sets over a certain size 
without an ATSC tuner.  There is no requirement that the product 
provide a good picture.  It is ok to sell a TV with an ATSC tuner 
which can tune all 18 ATSC formats, but display with less actual 
resolution than a DVD.

Legacy sales channels have big problems with digital TV since their 
sales staff lacks education, and the stores are wired up for NTSC 
composite video feeds to supply a hundred TVs.   The TVs are not 
calibrated in the first place, and once the customers get their hands 
on the TV remote, the colors are adjusted to many whacky color schemes 
so that the pictures on the TV sets don't look even close to similar.

Bob
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