Re: [Swprograms] More on Sirius, Post-Stern

["Mark J. Fine" <mark.fine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Figliozzi wrote:
> Speaking of that, I'm sure you've noted that Sirius has quite a few  
> of the old NYC and MTV DJs on their air.  Folks like Carol Miller,  

Yeah, sounds like the old WPLJ (which I also remember as WABC-FM) crowd. 
I did know about Cousin Brucie, but didn't know about Scelsa. That's a 
nice surprise. Schwartz was a strange animal. During the prog-rock days 
he was always the soft-spoken, easy-going, baseball guy. If the move to 
standards and/or classical is throwing you, I seem to remember that's 
exactly what he was doing the last time I stumbled onto him. One other 
thing I just noticed from the list that Rich posted, was Alex Bennett on 
the Left channel. I remember listening to his late-night call-in show on 
WPLJ about 30 years (ugh!) ago too.

> Just can't bring myself to pay the price for HD right now.  Maybe the  
> fact I have three in college has something to do with that.  Are you  
> coming to Kulpsville this year?  Missed you the last few.

I figured I'd take the plunge before my first and only goes away to 
college this year, which... may actually interfere with my fest plans, 
BTW. One weekend around that time she goes for a fellowship interview, 
the following weekend she auditions for a spot on the drama department. 
The timing is going to be interesting.

That being said, I would venture to guess that LCD-based DLP sets will 
be coming down sharply this year. They were about half the price of 
plasma a year ago, and prices are now about half of that. So, unless 
you're a gamer, that's the way to go (LCD is too slow for some games). 
DLP helps clear some of the "dinginess" of LCD too. One of the things 
that's a problem for either is that either can't really handle low 
contrast scenes very well as compared with a good raster display. The 
colors just don't come out right, like watching video on your computer 
screen.

However, highly sampled 1080i video showing on a 40-50" screen is a 
truly spectacular thing to see, especially for sporting events. Because 
the technology is essentially based on MPEG 4, there are some near-HD 
broadcasts that can't handle motion very well and pixilate when the 
compression is set too high. I saw that effect on every Universal HD 
Sunday-morning rebroadcast of Notre Dame home games (basically from 
NBC), but that was a trade-off for me. :^)

-- 

Mark J. Fine
Remington, Virginia, USA

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