[Coco] Why do a next Gen CoCo?

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Chris 

yes I did forget about those. Most here in my area have gone the way of the gooney bird. 

I can tell that a 100 W UHF signal is not going to reach very far. You are fortunate to live in 
an area where there are that many. 

james

On 19 Nov 2010 at 18:48, Christopher Hawks wrote:

> 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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