Re: [stella] PAL television color (getting OT, sorry)

Subject: Re: [stella] PAL television color (getting OT, sorry)
From: Russ Perry Jr <slapdash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:43:09 -0500
At 7:56 AM -0500 5/31/00, Kennehan, Richard wrote:
>Does anyone know if Digital TV will do away with the differences between
>NTSC and PAL?  Will Digital TV eventually be a "universal standard" ?

I think the answer is yes to the first, and a sorrowful no to the second...

First, HDTV was supposed to be the new standard, and worldwide it was
hoped.  But while America saw fighting between two standards, Japan
released a version that wasn't compatible with either.  Luckily, it was
analog and didn't do very well (unless it recovered miraculously in the
last decade or so), paving the way for the American standard (I THINK
they finally settled on just one) to be THE standard.

The problem is, yeah, now digital TV is coming about, and it may or
may not be the same thing as HDTV...  Look at Sun's page for JavaTV,
for instance.  People keep talking about a TV/net convergence, but of
course there's no guarantee that anything will actually CONVERGE.

What I wonder is if we'll HAVE to keep old TVs aroudn if we want to
keep playing our old games without having to rely on emulation.
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