By Dale Cripps • May 8 2008, 7:03pmFrances Cripps died yesterday, May 8th 2008, at high-noon in Corvallis, Oregon.
She was 93 years old.
She had suffered a long illness.
Why is this news in HDTV Magazine, you should rightly ask? Frances was one of many unsung heroes who played key roles in furthering HDTV.
Always far-seeing and an engineer by nature, she... By Dale Cripps • Mar 4 2008, 5:15pmI suppose I should be jubilant with Toshiba's announcement saying the end of the high def DVD format war has come.
If you have not yet heard, Toshiba has tossed in the towel on their HD DVD format.
Oddly enough, I am not all that thrilled.
It's not that I miss the fist pounding, name calling, and back biting from the combatants, for I don't.
My sadness, if it is that, is because both contenders were so well suited for the job they were vying for.
It is just unfortunate to me that one had to fail in the public eye.
It is, after all, a bit of a public humiliation.
Neither candidate deserved that fate, but, then again, the consumers didn't deserve an industry knock down, drag out street fight either! Both formats had elegant-enough technology to support their candidacy.
In the end, only the belief that... By Dale Cripps • Nov 2 2007, 6:31pmI wrote the piece (below) originally for High-Def.Org Magazine.
It concerns the high-definition DVD format war High-Def.Org is a printed monthly magazine read by 20,000 professionals working in television and motion pictures.
The article contains a highly personal view (certainly different from my partner Shane's) and one which I ask no one to follow...nor is it some official stand taking by HDTV Magazine.
It would be misleading to say, however, that it was written without the hope of being an influence to putting to rest this dual format problem.
How it falls is not too much of a concern for me (even if I push one way and it falls back to the other) but to end this "strike" a side must to be taken.
I know some of you will think I am blindly biased for the side I did take and far too simplistic in my view while others will say that I finally see the light.
The technology and arguments behind either format are challengingly good.
But I have been in this predicting business for 25 years ... By Dale Cripps • Jul 30 2007, 9:42pm"We need to get the digital transition right." _Senator Daniel Inouye
The Senate Commerce Committee on Science and Transportation held yet another hearing last Thursday, (July 26, 2007), on the digital television transition.
With only eighteen months remaining until shut off of all analog terrestrial broadcasting (switching to all-digital) there is a frightening recognition that the public has yet to be informed about it.
Senator Daniel K.
Inouye (D-HI) opened the hearing with a fist full of "facts".
"Between 15 and 21 million households," he said, "rely exclusively on over-the-air television.
Many more have second and third over-the-air sets in their homes.
In February 2009, these Americans could see their televisions go dark, disconnecting them from news, public safety announcements, and their community unless they get a converter box and attach it to their television.
Yet far too few of these consumers know that the transition ...
is underway.
"
Inouye ... By Dale Cripps • Apr 20 2007, 3:51amDepending upon one's loyalty "your side" is winning the high definition DVD race, but it's still a horse race to everyone else.
What is making headway is 1080p-the golden hope of the 80s and 90s has arrived, though not without controversy over its necessity.
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