They still make some good professional products but some of the consumer
items are miss marketed or too proprietary.  I am thinking of their
early process for transferring data to Mini Disks.  It should have been
possible from the get go to do this in something faster than real time.



 

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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:02 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: another digital TV question

Well, then it will be a way s then, but that I think is coming, and is
not a matter of if but when.  Sony made some good products like Betamax,
but they shot themselvs in the foot by not marketing it correctly.





On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Anthony Vece wrote:

> Hi Everyone;
>
> Those Sony products in the 70's and early 80's were untouchable!
>
> I would put any of the Sony analog radio tuners against any digital 
> tuner made today.
>
> Also, I heard recently that the FCC will not be requiring the little 
> Mom/Pop radio stations to go digital because the equipment is much too
expensive.
>
> That's what I heard anyway.
>
> 73 De Anthony W2AJV
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:17 AM
> Subject: Re: another digital TV question
>
>
> > Well, I remember my grandfather's watchman TV he got for Father's 
> > Day in 1984!  It was a hefty $250 then, and it was great picture 
> > quality and a sensative little TV on both VHF/UHF!  I wonder then 
> > when will radeio be mandated to be all digital?  If TV is going 
> > radio must be right around the corner!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Louis Kim Kline wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jeff.
> >>
> >> Probably not in the short run, but eventually, as analog radio 
> >> becomes a thing of the past, sure.  I predict that in ten years 
> >> you'll have pocket HD radios that will tune AM/FM/TV and they'll 
> >> only cost you about $250, gbut that'll probably be worth about 
> >> $12.00 in today's dollars!
> >>
> >> 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 04:11 PM 4/10/2008 -0400, you wrote:
> >> >Hi everyone, I know we've talked about digital TV, but with the 
> >> >switch in
> >> >mind and with all of the equipment that   is out there now that
can tune
> >> >TV channels will there be anything that will support digital TV 
> >> >audio in the way of ham and other commercial radios that for some 
> >> >people all they want is TV audio?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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