I have rejoined the list after a long period in which I chose to dedicate myself to other subjects for a change.
Unfortunately, everywhere I go I encounter the good old American hobby of making a mockery of every possible international standard. I will attempt make it short: I started by gathering more information on satellite reception as I wanted to switch to some satellite service which may be able to bring me more diversity than the usual propaganda on cable. To make a paranthesis here: I strongly recommend (to those intersested ), the reception of Telstar5 which is owned by Globecast (www.globecast.com) which is a division of France Telecom and is the sole broadcaster in NA of Euronews (Eng, Fre, Ger, Ita, Rus, Spa) as well as GermanTV which is a compilation of the major German broadcasters (ARD, ZDF, DW). For those who are interested to learn more about the (what I found it to be) interesting field of the TV/Sat standards you will find a very comprehensive and not too scientific description at: http://www.coolstf.com/mpeg/ Finally, for those who are not interested but would like me to get to the point with this posting, I am copying a phrase from the text at the above web-site. =====snip===== "ATSC is Advanced Television Systems Committee which is destined to replace NTSC as the method of terrestrial television transmissions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan. Like DCII, ACTS uses the MPEG-2 video specification, but bastardizes everything else, making North American (and South Korea/Taiwan) an island in a world of standards." =====snip==== Sounds familiar? It seems there are more people in this country who share the opinion that, American patriotism has nothing to do with sticking to colloquial standards. Your good old friend: metricus (Adrian Jadic) -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8
