Tag Archives: tv

Defibrillating a dead horse

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Doc Searls

Before we start, let me explain that ATSC 1.0 is the HDTV standard, and defines what you get from HDTV stations over the air and cable. It dates from the last millennium. Resolution currently maxes out at 1080i, which fails … Continue reading →

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The Net: Free infrastructure for speech, enterprise and assembly

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Doc Searls

I just posted this essay to IdeaScale at OpenInternet.gov, in advance of the Open Internet Workshop at MIT this afternoon. (You can vote it up or down there, along with other essays.)  I thought I’d put it here too. — … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Value Subtraction

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Doc Searls

One of the reasons I liked Dish Network (to the extent anybody can like a purely commercial entertainment utility) was that their satellite receivers included an over-the-air tuner. It nicely folded your over-the-air (OTA) stations in with others in the … Continue reading →

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Journalism and Net Nativity

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Doc Searls

I don’t go to TV for Journalism any more, even though I’m sure there’s plenty left: needles scattered thorugh a haystack of channels and program schedules that have become so hard to navigate on satellite and cable systems that it’s … Continue reading →

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Follow the falling brick road

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Doc Searls

New England is full of ruins. Woods everywhere are veined with stone walls, relics of an agrarian age that ended when the industrial one began. Shipping canals, which were thick with horse-drawn cargo when the Thoreau brothers rowed past them … Continue reading →

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Wanted: à la carte HDTV

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Doc Searls

So our Verizon FiOS home bill has been about $160/month. We were looking to chop that down a bit when I called Verizon this morning. To put it as simply as possible, it’s complicated. What I care about most is … Continue reading →

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Too late. Just go ahead with it.

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Doc Searls

Barack Obama wants to wait on the DTV shift currently scheduled for 17 February. On the grounds that it’ll be a mess, this is a good idea. But nothing can make it a better idea. It’s not that the train … Continue reading →

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