Aaaargh! Is it NTCS vs. PAL vs. SECAM all over again?

[Ramon F Herrera]

Maybe I am a naive person, but when I started reading about HDTV, I
really imagined that the regional divisions of yore were over. After
all, hasn't the Internet and other technologies such as cellular
taught us anything about interoperability?

Much to my dismay, I am learning about unpleasant acronyms: DVB-T,
SBTD, ATSC, DVB-T/H, and ISDB-T.

I refuse to believe that those TV systems are completely incompatible.
A Sony purchased in Japan works in Japan only? How complicated is for
Sony to take a bare bones TV and convert it for the US consumer? Ditto
for the European consumer?

Isn't the whole thing software, anyway?

TIA,

-Ramon

 

[Ramon F Herrera]

Maybe I am a naive person, but when I started reading about HDTV, I
really imagined that the regional divisions of yore were over. After
all, hasn't the Internet and other technologies such as cellular
taught us anything about interoperability?

Much to my dismay, I am learning about unpleasant acronyms: DVB-T,
SBTD, ATSC, DVB-T/H, and ISDB-T.

I refuse to believe that those TV systems are completely incompatible.
A Sony purchased in Japan works in Japan only? How complicated is for
Sony to take a bare bones TV and convert it for the US consumer? Ditto
for the European consumer?

Isn't the whole thing software, anyway?

TIA,

-Ramon

I obviously meant "NTSC", an acronym that according to my professor of
electronics means "Never Twice the Same Color".

One of the reasons I ask is because I am currently in Venezuela, and I
had no idea about the geo-political-tecno-economic implications.

Brasil and Argentina have decided to go together, with a yet to be
determined system, while Colombia and Uruguay have opted for the
European system.

-RFH

 

[JosephKK]

Maybe I am a naive person, but when I started reading about HDTV, I
really imagined that the regional divisions of yore were over. After
all, hasn't the Internet and other technologies such as cellular
taught us anything about interoperability?

Much to my dismay, I am learning about unpleasant acronyms: DVB-T,
SBTD, ATSC, DVB-T/H, and ISDB-T.

I refuse to believe that those TV systems are completely incompatible.
A Sony purchased in Japan works in Japan only? How complicated is for
Sony to take a bare bones TV and convert it for the US consumer? Ditto
for the European consumer?

Isn't the whole thing software, anyway?

TIA,

-Ramon

How hopeful with all the billions in royalties involved.

 

[JosephKK]

I obviously meant "NTSC", an acronym that according to my professor of
electronics means "Never Twice the Same Color".

One of the reasons I ask is because I am currently in Venezuela, and I
had no idea about the geo-political-tecno-economic implications.

Brasil and Argentina have decided to go together, with a yet to be
determined system, while Colombia and Uruguay have opted for the
European system.

-RFH

Which European system? There is three that i have heard of.

 

[Anon bozo]

"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
from."
Anon

 

[Jeroen Belleman]

"The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
from."
Anon

I've seen that one attributed to Andrew Tanenbaum.

Jeroen Belleman