понеделник, септември 13, 2004
SciFi.com and HDTV
High Definition Will Have to Wait
"Yes, HDTV is the wave of the future and I'm positive the SCI FI Channel will eventually convert, but, unless you somehow haven't noticed (which I doubt, since you own one), HDTVs are still very expensive, and many people don't have the resources to buy them. When given the choice between $350 for a 27-inch flat-screen TV and up to $5,999 for an HDTV (some are even higher in price), most people will go for the $350 flat screen."
Low-Quality TV Doesn't Deserve HD
"I have long thought that the SCI FI Channel should make every effort to join the HDTV world ('SCI FI Should Broadcast in HD'); but then I reconsidered, thinking over exactly what they offer to the viewing public most of the time.
Theodore Sturgeon coined a famous maxim which goes: 90 percent of everything is crap. Sadly, that is more than true for the SCI FI Channel. For every Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Farscape and Invisible Man, we get get entire warehouses of straight-to-video (or is it straight to DVD by now?) crap.
If they don't care about the low-quality of the majority of their programming, why would they care about their signal quality?"
HDTV Is Tech Snobbery
"Lots of us in the sci-fi demographic are very much into high-tech, but that does not necessarily mean that we value television so much that we'll sink four-digit amounts to watch HDTV."
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/letters.html
"Yes, HDTV is the wave of the future and I'm positive the SCI FI Channel will eventually convert, but, unless you somehow haven't noticed (which I doubt, since you own one), HDTVs are still very expensive, and many people don't have the resources to buy them. When given the choice between $350 for a 27-inch flat-screen TV and up to $5,999 for an HDTV (some are even higher in price), most people will go for the $350 flat screen."
Low-Quality TV Doesn't Deserve HD
"I have long thought that the SCI FI Channel should make every effort to join the HDTV world ('SCI FI Should Broadcast in HD'); but then I reconsidered, thinking over exactly what they offer to the viewing public most of the time.
Theodore Sturgeon coined a famous maxim which goes: 90 percent of everything is crap. Sadly, that is more than true for the SCI FI Channel. For every Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Farscape and Invisible Man, we get get entire warehouses of straight-to-video (or is it straight to DVD by now?) crap.
If they don't care about the low-quality of the majority of their programming, why would they care about their signal quality?"
HDTV Is Tech Snobbery
"Lots of us in the sci-fi demographic are very much into high-tech, but that does not necessarily mean that we value television so much that we'll sink four-digit amounts to watch HDTV."
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/letters.html
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