Re: [IRCA] Dump AM IBOC, Move the AM Band, re:HDTV comment

["Neil Kazaross" <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps I am blessed with a good HDTV setup, LG receivers and Direct TV 
(there is no cable run to houses on my dead end street), and a quick flip 
between ESPN analog and ESPN HD while watching the Bears steal last night's 
game is all that it takes to see a real difference and to not want to watch 
it on analog if again if HD is available. I find the same true for baseball, 
basketball, and even hockey and golf, not to mention shows with nice scenery 
like Lost (which is one of very few series I ever watch).

HDTV runied a my active and rather successful UHF DXing hobby due to 
basically doubling the ammount of my locals so I had reasons to hate it, but 
then I saw it as being for the betterment of our visual enjoyment. I 
honestly think that there were more motivations for HDTV than just selling 
more TV's.

Now for FM IBOC..I cannot hear much of a difference (I personally don't own 
any HD radios) but maybe the extra subchannels will be useful in the 
longrun.

AM IBOC doesn't have any subchannels and like FM, do people really care if 
something sounds a bit better ?

So..I feel..AM IBOC flops horribly, FM IBOC might make it or might not, and 
HDTV is a nice improvement and will make it. Americans are much more 
concerned about visual pleasures than slightly better audio.

73 KAZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russ Edmunds" <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Dump AM IBOC, Move the AM Band, re:HDTV comment


>
>
> --- Neil Kazaross <neilkaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Pardon me, but have you ever spent any time watching HDTV ? I hate to
>> get
>> too far OT here, but honestly, HDTV provides a MUCH better picture
>> than
>> analog and is a major improvement. Watching sporting events and shows
>> with
>> nice scenery on HDTV is much more pleasurable to the eye than on
>> analog.
>
>
> *** Sorry, but I guess I missed seeing anything in Mike's post which
> ought to have caused the above reaction.
>
> HDTV was indeed born out of the need to sell more TV sets. That
> statement doesn't make any value judgement on the level of perceived
> improvement.
>
> But I will say that I have seen a fair amount of sports on HDTV, and
> I've seen side-by-side comparisons, and what is absolutely clear to me
> is that there is a great deal of variance owing to an equal number of
> variables in terms of the quality of transmission, quality of signal,
> quality of receiver, proper hookup, etc.
>
> I see an improvement, but so far I have not seen sufficient improvement
> for me to go and trash my analog set and buy an ( overpriced ) HDTV in
> a size I can't reasonably accomodate. To me there's a lot of YMMV here.
>
>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA  ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20ID
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
>

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