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Subject: Re:OT Will the internet replace all other media?

Date: Sat 07/11/09 22:55:31 GMT

Name: Desert Hawk

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I know that digital tv is better than analog tv. I bought 3 HDTVs, 1 SDTV with a digital tuner, and a DVD recorder with a digital tuner. We mostly use cable. I use the SD set outdoors usually over the air, and one HD set has an A/B switch and an antenna also. You have probably read sopme of my previous rants about how cable companies encrypt aka scramble all digital channels except the local channels and will eventually force boxes on everyone for any service level above limited basic. Digital is a great improvement over analog. I jsut hope that the future includes lots of clear QAM cable channels, and that over the air broadcasting remains as an option. Back on topic, wet clothes on a woman look better in high definition than standard definition!

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Re:OT Will the internet replace all other media?

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Sat 07/11/09 01:26:32 GMT

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You're not alone. I think there are enough other people who want to read printed material and watch broadcast TV. They may lose significance in the years to come, but they won't disappear any time soon.

The recent move to digital TV is in part motivated by the need to free up spectrum for other purposes. The NTSC standard (analog) broadcasts we've come to know in North America since the dawn of television is quite inefficient in its use of the frequency spectrum. The new digital standards are much more efficient. The surrender of analog TV spectrum does not represent a sacrifice of programming channels. There's actually a lot more programming room under the new standards and allocations.

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Re:OT Will the internet replace all other media?

By Desert Hawk - Thu 05/11/09 20:14:00 GMT

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The reason I posted this is because of a discussion going on at www.avsforum.com about the possible end of broadcast television. A proposal has been made to eliminate over the air television and to give the frequencies to wireless companies to use for broadband wireless internet. That would mean that cable and satellite would be the only tv options. This would be an extremely bad thing to do. Can you imagine ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS being just 4 more cable networks? Cable bills would skyrocket even more under that scenario. Wireless companies just got the frequencies of channels 52-69. They already took 70-83 back in 1983. We can't let over the air television die just so more people can surf the internet in super high speed on laptops while on the go. As far as rural homes, the phone companies should make wired broadband available. Broadcast television has used it's current frequencies since the 1940s. It still has a place in the 21st century and beyond. Wireless internet can't have all the frequency spectrum!

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Re:OT Will the internet replace all other media?

By Kerry Tiller - kctiller@cox.net Thu 05/11/09 01:35:51 GMT

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Relax

No, the Internet will NOT replace other media. Not entirely. As an historian, I look at other "new" forms of news and entertainment media that were to sound the death knell for previous ones. Photography has been around since the 1850s. Painting pictures with palette and brush did not go away. Movies have been around since the 1890s; people never stopped writing books. Commercial radio has been around for 90 years. Print news media is still with us. Television was introduced to the world at the 1939 New York World's Fair. It did NOT sound the death knell for radio or the movies. Despite the electronic media revolution of the 20th Century, a decade into the 21st Century the print media is still with us. Older forms of entertainment may fall from the mainstream, but they never go away. I was in a Staples store recently and was surprised to see brand new type writers for sale. There are niches in the "modern" world for all things out dated. Have you noticed the old radio dramas that disappeared in the 1950s (due to TV) are now on satellite radio? I love to read news papers, but I don't agree with the current Left Wing political bent of most mainstream US papers; so I read the London Times. On the internet!

Kerry Tiller

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OT Will the internet replace all other media?

By Desert Hawk - Wed 04/11/09 22:18:05 GMT

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I think it will be a very sad world if the internet replaces all other media. Some so-called experts think that is where we are heading. They are saying that print newspapers and magazines will disappear, CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, etc. will be replaced by downloading, print books will be replaced by e-books, and now they are saying that broadcast television might possibly be ending in order to give the frequencies to wireless broadband. At first ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX would become cable networks, replacing the local affiliate business model. Some experts say linear cable networks will eventually be gone, possibly with the exception of networks showing live events such as sports, and the future of tv be almost entirely on-demand via the internet. The same "experts" say broadcast radio will go away, replaced by music streamed to our cars by wireless internet. I WANT NO PART OF THIS VISION OF THE FUTURE!!! I like to pick up a physical newspaper, magazine, or book and read an actual printed page instead of having to boot up a comuter to read anything. I like to watch tv as we have always known it, not on a computer. I like real local radio stations playing music. I like popping in physical media to play prerecorded music and video. Most other people feel the same way. Don't get me wrong, I love the internet. I use it almost every day for forums like this and other things that only the internet can do. The internet has definately made life better. But the internet should never supplant all other media. God bless the internet. But if the internet replaces everything else, GOD HELP US ALL!!!

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