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Technology Stocks : Ampex Corporation (AEXCA)
AMPX 11.17+1.6%Jan 20 3:59 PM EST

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To: flickerful who wrote (3426)9/18/1998 5:58:00 AM
From: Gus  Read Replies (3) of 17679
 
...the ramifications and the repercussions here are enormous.

Below is a link to an article on Sony's latest Digital TV product that further serves to buttress the importance of the '027 case to tiny Ampex.

Sony joins digital TV fray
news.com

...The Wega HDTV set will allow users to connect to a cable box via a component video interconnect. A component video connection passes through signals on four separate wires, which allows for higher quality than the connectors typically found on TVs. However, quality is still degraded because inexpensive chips are often being used to translate the digital signal into an analog format and back.

"The downside is that [component video connectors] are not currently standard on anything except in the professional broadcast world," said Gerry Kaufhold, principal digital TV analyst with Cahners In-Stat research group...


I'm sure that there's somebody out there who can explain better the difference between composite and component video signals and the superior quality of component video signals.

Gus

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