America’s HDTV standard is horrendously complex and will
produce confusion instead of high-definition images unless it is
fixed. This article describes what is wrong, why it is wrong, and
how to fix it. The standard created by the ATSC is really 28
standards that encourage TV stations to transmit low-definition,
low-quality signals and make the new television system far too
complex. Let’s stop this madness and do it the right way
before it is too late.
If you’ve ever beamed a “business card” from
your Palm or Visor to someone else’s PDA, you’ve used a vCard.
Unfortunately, the standard is not implemented well, and all
implementations are missing important features. This sorry state has
to be fixed before the next generation of handheld devices and cell
phones sets a brain-dead implementation in stone.
Underutilized Technology
I feel another essay in the works. One about all the
underutilized technology that the American market seems
to ignore. Things like RDS data streams on broadcast
radio, the mobile Web (WAP), and all the various computer
technologies such as SmartCards that could make our
lives easer and safer, but never catch on the way
they do in Europe.
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