[ont.events] Toronto SIGGRAPH meeting Nov. 20: HDTV

tom%alias@csri.toronto.edu (Tom Burns) (11/06/90)

***** Hi-Def:  Politics, Economics, and Technology *****

On November 20th, John Amanatides will answer the question:
         What is happening with HDTV?

As always, the odd-month meetings are open to the
public and free of charge.  Please join us in Room 2101, Sandford
Fleming Building,  U. of T.  10 Kings College Rd. at 8 pm.

                            ABSTRACT
Because of recent DARPA funding, and the FCC requests for proposals
regarding a terrestrial broadcast system for HDTV, there is a great
deal of activity in research centres across the US.  In the talk, he
will look at the history of HDTV, what is currently happening and what
we can expect.  He will also look at the technical problems involved in
coming up with a practical HDTV system as well as the political and
economic factors surrounding the development of such a system.

Using an HDTV console for a graphics workstation would likely bring the
price of both down as a standard contributes economies of scale to two
traditionally captive markets.  Mirroring the merging of video and
computers at the consumer level, will we see a similar blending at the
broadcast/workstation level?  Hi-Def may be the answer.....


Hope to see you,

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