Technology that refuses to die

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What killed over the air broadcasting was that ten years ago a high definition television was not required to have a digital tuner which effectively made these televisions worthless and a waste of money.

When the government provided digital tuners the government conspired to destroy free over the air television by making it illegal for these digital tuners to output a high definition signal. These boxes would actually scramble the picture with black interlace scanning lines so that picture quality would be further destroyed.

Today all televisions are sold with free high definition tuners but this may be too late to save free television.

Videotape is a technology that refuses to die. I have over a hundred high definition video tapes and I still use videotape to record events.

It is called cable t.v. and direct broadcast t.v. which uses satellites

ruveyn

Cable and satellite TV does not count because it is not free.

prob with cable is that it requires installation of cable equipment and is not free as OTA tv is. the FCC's job was to maintain public airwaves, including free OTA tv for everyman and not just folks with money. free DB [sat] tv probably could be made to work as a replacement for terrestrial broadcast free tv, but requires lots more technical expertise on the part of the end user. there could just be commercial feeds [just like there are commercial feeds in regular OTA tv] to pay for it.

I still use VHS tapes in my closed captioning. I developed a method of working where I play the tape back at 2X speed because if I didn't, I'd fall asleep at my desk. Our programming can be a bit boring.

Before Blu-Ray , VHS was the only way you could watch a Hollywood movie in high definition yet most people thought VHS was obsolete even though DVD only supported crummy low definition.

I wish I could have a job like that.

Movie film has supported high definition for about 75 years.

^^^
but in terms of temporal definition it is piss-poor. 24 frames per second=judder/blurring of fast-moving objects. motion picture film didn't become truly high-def until douglas trumbull invented his Showscan process which is high-frame-rate 70mm film. IMAX highdef [48 frames per second] is similar.

A 120 hertz high definition television can fix the motion problems of movies but if there is ever a technology that refuses to die it is that Hollywood insists that every movie today and in the infinite future must be shot and projected at 24 frames per second. The penalty for deviating from this group think is simply you will not be allowed to work in the film industry nor will you be allowed to associate with your peers on the internet.

But the good news is that Doug Trumbull is getting back into the movie making business with his new Digital Showscan format which is 1080p high definition video shot at 120 frames per second.

both the director of titanic and the director of the new hobbit movie have both devoted themselves henceforth to high-frame-rate videography. I hope they will influence the rest along. 24 fps is SO REDUCTIVE.


1080P? why would he not be using 8k?

Both the internet and Hollywood are controlled by the American Society of Cinematographers, which is an organization that champions 24 frames per second cinematography, and have vowed to silence anyone who disagrees with them,. They have denounced Peter Jackson and his movie the Hobbit by saying it looks like a cheap soap opera shot with a cheap video camera.

ASC are collectively blind. they make the AMA look like a bunch of radicals.

This job would be perfect for me if only I wasn't trying to support 4 people with my pay. I get to sit in a room all by myself all day and watch TV. The only catch is I can never change the channel. Or do anything else. And it's religious programming.

How do VHS tapes support high definition digital broadcasting?