HDTV Modulator, CONTINUED HERE!

Dan Druker said the following a while back, which I just found and want to respond to:



Um, no, Dan, existing TVs didn't and don't lose their ability to receive NTSC signals. The high-power OTA broadcasters were just made by law to turn their transmitters off. I think even new TVs will still be made with the ability to tune those in, though, because LOW-powered stations weren't required to turn off their analog transmissions.

Hey, "I Love to Accelerate" (Oh, cool, I decoded your little "personalized license plate" there!),

(Okay, I'll just pretend that you had written "TiVos" and "HDTVs" without the stray apostrophe there, because since plurals don't have apostrophes in them, that's what you would have meant.)

Dan clearly said "once televions lose their ability to receive NTSC signals." This can mean he thought one or more things: 1. That somehow, because few or analog TV signals will be delivered to TVs by air, they'll "magically" lose their ability to receive any NTSC signals. A. NTSC doesn't only mean "analog channels delivered by standard antenna. B. They don't lose their ability to receive even those signals just because someone stops sending them. C. NTSC is also sent via satellite, cable TV service, and analog A/V jacks/plugs. Therefore, even a non-radio signal can be NTSC. So even a TV that might not have a tuner for NTSC SD signals can still receive them.

Or 2. That, as if the only kind of NTSC signal comes from analog tuners (even though it's not), there are some new TVs that they have made that can't even receive the low-powered analog channels that were permitted to keep operating as usual. You seem to believe that there are new TVs that were made completely devoid of any analog tuners. Are you sure? If so, that'd be interesting to hear about. What models?

By the way, HD isn't the only thing that even just the digital side of digital TVs can receive. There are still several SD channels out there that they can get over the air. So it isn't as if those tuners are just called "HD tuners." They're digital tuners that happen to include some HD.


Anyway, yeah, I know. I wanted to clear those up even though they're not the real point. I know the real point is to be able to modulate ATSC (8VSB) to other receivers through F-type cables that might be around in the house already. And I know I still haven't seen any consumer-priced 8VSB modulators yet. So yeah, I can understand Dan's concern. Hopefully we'll see some of those at consumer prices sometime in the foreseeable future.

Mike

Sam, if you think that's "disjointed," then clearly you have no idea how to read like a normal human. If you could possibly try to offer some kind of halfway credible explanation for how you arrived at that crap, then I might be interested in hearing it.

As for what you lamely called "grammar police," that has nothing to do with what you errantly think of as being "disjointed." Even so, making one comment that I would pretend something didn't happen is not being a "grammar cop." Because of jerks like you, though, it would be nice if we had something like an arrogance cop. That'd help clean the neighborhood up a good bit.

sam, one thing I wonder is why you even gave a crap about my response to someone who wasn't even you. Since when does it matter to you if it wasn't even you I was talking to, you moron?

It looks like what we have here, with you, is someone who isn't even half-smart enough to distinguish when you wanted to be talking about someone else from when you wanted to be talking about yourself--which (the second thing) is actually what happened in this case.