[Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?

[Christopher Hawks]

jdaggett at gate.net said the following on 11/19/2010 10:07 AM:

> Yep

>

> 2009 saw the end of analog TV transmisstions in the USA. The old NTSC analog sets are

> worthless today. No one here even considers buying used ones for resale. They have

> become dinosaurs here.

>

> Everything is transmitted digitally over the air now. There still maybe some abalog signals up

> on the C band and K band satellites. Most of the signals on those transponders have been

> digital for over a decade now. Easier to encrypt and no longer is the NTSC color burst a

> sacred cow.


	That's funny, there are still hundreds (over a thousand) stations still 
broadcasting NTSC television. Low power and repeater stations are exemt from 
the digital mandate. I can get 4 where I live.

See http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/LPTVmap.html for a list of low power 
stations.


> On 19 Nov 2010 at 8:46, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>

>> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:25 AM,<jdaggett at gate.net>  wrote:

>>> On 19 Nov 2010 at 3:17, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>>>

>>>> An Amiga 500 in a joystick would be pretty nice, some really great

>>>> games on that system.  I've played with Minimig on the DE1 and it's

>>>> fun, but a simple device that plugs straight to a TV would be

>>>> convenient.

>>>

>>> Here in the USA unless you have a old TV floating around, there is not a real easy solution to

>>> just plugging into a TV anymore. Most Digital set now have VGA, S-video or HDMI interface.

>>> Some of the digital sets made a few years ago do have Compsite video input also.

>>>

>>> Going further into the future, digital sets will more than likely drop composite and S-video

>>> inputs and rely strictly on HDMI and VGA(DVI) interfaces.

>>>

>>

>> Interesting.. I haven't turned on a television in years, other than to

>> use it as a monitor on older computer systems.  I suppose if that is

>> the way things are going, cheap devices that use a TV as a monitor

>> will cease to exist.  Or, maybe VGA is becoming cheap enough to

>> provide an alternative to composite.  I'm sure the big media companies

>> would like to make it impossible to view anything without the proper

>> DRM limitations, hopefully that won't turn out as they hope.

>>

>>> just my thoughts

>>> james

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