HDTV to the home

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What are all the ways you can get HDTV to your home? I know the obvious,
cable and DirecTV. Are there others?

- JB

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JB wrote:
> What are all the ways you can get HDTV to your home? I know the obvious,
> cable and DirecTV. Are there others?

Use an antenna and get it for free.

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> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:10:39 -0500, "JB"
> <jbrandonbbremove@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>What are all the ways you can get HDTV to your home? I know the obvious,
>>cable and DirecTV. Are there others?
>>
>>- JB
>>

Over the Air (OTA), if you live in an area that has broadcasts.

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Despite the lack of high def DVDs due to both technical and political
obstacles regarding format, compatibility, etc., there are also immediate
ways to deliver HDTV to the home via computer disks. The playback device is
a recent vintage computer with a DVD drive connected to a high resolution
display, using media in one of several formats. The most common of these
formats are WMVHD (from Microsoft), QuickTime (from Apple), DivX-HD, and
less common but totally workable MPEG2 and H.264 / MPEG4 players.

I admit that this is hardly a mainstream method of HDTV delivery, but it is,
in fact, a current method to deliver "HDTV to the home" per the original
poster's inquiry.

Smarty


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>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:10:39 -0500, "JB"
>> <jbrandonbbremove@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What are all the ways you can get HDTV to your home? I know the obvious,
>>>cable and DirecTV. Are there others?
>>>
>>>- JB
>
> Over the Air (OTA), if you live in an area that has broadcasts.

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Not aware of "a Disney method". Voom was a satellite service delivering many
channels of HD content, but I though they were out of business.


"JB" <jbrandonbbremove@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Smarty" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in message
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>> I admit that this is hardly a mainstream method of HDTV delivery, but it
>> is, in fact, a current method to deliver "HDTV to the home" per the
>> original poster's inquiry.
>>
> What I was kind of fishing for was alternaitve methods that I knew about
> once, but forget. Some Disney method? Wasn't there a Voom service?
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>

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JB (jbrandonbbremove@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> What I was kind of fishing for was alternaitve methods that I knew about
> once, but forget. Some Disney method?

The "Disney method" you are remembering wasn't HD. It was for sending SD
(or maybe even lower) res movies digitally encoded in the VBI of OTA
stations. The data was encrypted, and you needed a special authorized
Disney DVR to receive, store, and decrypt the movie.

I know that was what Disney outlined as the method, but I have no idea
if it actually launched for real and boxes were put in homes.

--
Jeff Rife | Radio Shack...you've got questions,
| we've got puzzled looks.

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JB wrote:
> What are all the ways you can get HDTV to your home? I know the obvious,
> cable and DirecTV. Are there others?
>

Download HDTV clips from the Internet.