Do you remember when?

[Gregg Lengling]

Do you remember when all the members on this board were awaiting Digital signals (not counting Faux6).  Now it seems all the talk is about when a program has technical difficulties or someone forgets to flip a switch.  

Boy we've come a long way into the future in 2 years.

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Rock on!

[Tom Snyder]

Heck, I remember waiting for the local TV channels to broadcast in color and the local FM's to boradcast in Stereo!!!

[Gregg Lengling]

Well the first thing I did when the local FM's broadcast in stereo was I made a Stereo Pilot tone detector.  Used the output to mute the speaker when there wasn't a pilot....didn't have to listen to the ads, just the music.  Of course after a couple years kits started appearing in magazines for that and that got the stations to wisen up and never turn off the Stereo Pilot even if they only had a mono program or ad running.

Of course I also remember when we got our first STB....yeah that'll get the young guys going....the STB was a UHF downconverter so we could watch the UHF stations, just select channel 2 or 3 and tune them in on the STB.

Well here we are again with STB's but this time it's to receive digital broadcasts.  I guess those that don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it.
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[foxeng]

Originally posted by Gregg Lengling
Well the first thing I did when the local FM's broadcast in stereo was I made a Stereo Pilot tone detector.  Used the output to mute the speaker when there wasn't a pilot....didn't have to listen to the ads, just the music.  Of course after a couple years kits started appearing in magazines for that and that got the stations to wisen up and never turn off the Stereo Pilot even if they only had a mono program or ad running.

Of course back in those days if you were not transmitting stereo material, by law you had to turn the pilot off like in the early days of color, there was a law if the material was not in color, the color burst signal had to be turned off so the b&w material didn't come out green or red on a color set.

Ah, those were the days!