| Title: | You get surface noise in real life too |
| Notice: | Let's be conformist |
| Moderator: | GOVT02::BARKER |
| Created: | Thu Jul 28 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Again, this isn't strictly audio, but closely related. I didn't want to
put this note in 197, as that's about specific TV recommendations.
Does anyone have any views on where TVs/Videos are going in the next
few years ? I held off from buying a TV a couple of years ago, in order
to wait for NICAM to be more widely available. It's still not available
on TVs that are small enough for me. However, I did read somewhere that
NICAM gives such good sound quality, that you need a fair sized screen
to go with it !
Will there ever be TV "separates" widely available ? For example, you
could have a separate monitor, receiver and a dumb VCR that didn't need
a receiver in it (I guess the receiver would have to be smart enough to
let you watch one station while recording another).
Trevor
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| 198.1 | It's been tried | LARVAE::BARKER | Do not fold, spindle or mutilate | Tue Aug 21 1990 10:44 | 16 |
Sony produced TV separates a few years ago. I seem to remember that they were oddly named something like PROFEEL. There doesn't appear to be much of a market or they would presumably still be doing it. I suspect that the difference in price between a monitor only and a monitor with integral receiver is relatively little that there is little incentive for the customer to purchase separates. The difference with audio equipment is that as you buy more expensive components then you are able to extract more & more information from the source material with increasingly lifelike results. The source material for TVs is pretty average and relatively modest equipment produces acceptable results. Perhaps with HDTV and wall size screens or projectors then the market will develop. Nigel | |||||
| 198.2 | You can have it now.... | BAHTAT::SALLITT | Dave @RKG, 831-3117 | Tue Aug 21 1990 14:56 | 16 |
You could always connect two NICAM video recorders in series, the first
for recording as normal and the second as a tuner for viewing in real
time. You'd also be able to make two simultaneous but different
recordings, or (shock, horror!) duplicate tapes. Feed the
colour monitor of your choice, and your stereo system, from the SCART
connector on the second video recorder.
Two NICAM video recorders seems expensive at about a grand, but if you
wanted a receiver that would allow recording at the same time as
watching a different channel in real time, two tuners would be required.
On top of that you'd still need a recorder that could handle the RGB
signal and the sound from the receiver, so it wouldn't be very simple;
the transport is probably the most expensive part anyway. You'd still
need a monitor, and you still wouldn't be able to tape tapes, etc.
Dave
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