High definition television (HDTV) is coming. As mentioned in the January 5th edition of Liberal News and Commentary, the problem is that the government had been planning to make our analog sets obsolete just five years from now by prohibiting television stations from broadcasting analog signals after the end of 2006. What a waste of our perfectly good televisions. Now, there is hope for the survival of analog sets.
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The reason that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to end analog broadcasting (See 13th question down) is to conserve bandwith. Analog and digital signals would need separate TV channels, and the FCC didn't want to devote that many broadcast frequencies to television broadcasting.
On Tuesday, the Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that their scientists have invented a way to broadcast both analog and digital signals on the same television channel frequency through the use of a new signal compression technology that they have developed.
This should resolve the problem.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory has issued a news release to further explain this magnificent development. I encourage the FCC to direct that the new technology be implemented by television broadcasters so as to extend the lives of our perfectly good analog television sets.
Do you remember my reference in the January 5th edition of Liberal News and Commentary to some guy who still listens to his rock and roll music on a record player? He's the guy who notified me of the Los Alamos development. Liberal News and Commentary thanks Him, of the beloved broadcasting duo Him 'N' Her, for the tip. Would you like to know who Him really is? He's my fellow broadcaster in Chicago, Steve King, who with his wonderful wife Johnnie Putman host the all-night show at WGN Radio, Chicago's best radio station. Some day I hope to be as good on the radio as they are. One thing that I've already done just like him is marry well.
You haven't lived until you've heard Steve's rendition of Johnny B. Good!
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