Digital TV is here. Selected reality represented by a series of 1’s and 0’s. I miss the Indian-head
poster TV studios used to put up to “white balance” and signal align their cameras before each broadcast. The jump from analog TV to digital TV will be more significant than the jump from B/W to color TV. This time, we got mobility and speed, not to mention
accuracy and security. In the old days, opera houses hired claque professionals to start a string of applause. With digital TV, Nielsen will have less work to tabulate audience response (and advertisers with collection) .
With digital TV i.e. 24/7 news cycle when you want, where you want, one no longer has to warm up the TV dinner and wait for Ted Koppel at 6:30 PM to tell us how many days (444) there had been since US hostages were taken at the embassy in Tehran (79).
One of these days, I might even upload some digital video on YouTube, by far, the best of Web 2.0 apps, in my opinion.
After all, it’s a tech-enabled global society, isn’t it? Satellite transmission (vertical upload) renders the concept of gatekeepers (one-way information flow) kind of obsolete (well, I purposefully left out fire walls and all that IT stuff. Go IT go!). Just make sure that what’s being uploaded meet the standards of public decency i.e. tasteful and respectful.
Whatever the means, we still abide by the Golden Rules: air that which we ourselves would like to view.
Thang Nguyen 555 