Emlyn wrote,
>The cruddy "standard" will always win. While you are trying to hold your
>(indubitably) superior standard together, in agreements with a zillion
>variously competing interests, someone who doesn't give two hoots about
>technological superiority will sneak in a minimally interoperable
>alternative. The politics is so much easier, and it gives everyone a lot
>more room to move. For instance, the big orgs will want to subvert the
>standard and own it; a minimal, cruddy standard requires (proprietary)
>extensions to be workable.
In a way, this has already happened with digital TV broadcasts in the
U.S. Digital TV gives a better picture than analog. BUT, it is also
easier to subdivide into more channels to make more profit. Every
time you divide a channel, you reduce its quality. Digital broadcast
TV has actually subdivided their channels so that the resolution and
bandwidth is slightly less than broadcast. The digital medium which
should be superior has been degraded so that it is worse.
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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