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On 1/3/2015 1:45 AM, meow2222@care2.com wrote:
On Thursday, November 20, 2014 12:38:37 AM UTC, rickman wrote:
On 11/19/2014 7:19 PM, Joerg wrote:
It's always good to learn about those because one can do weird tricks
with them. They are also useful as gain control elements. I just hope
they won't disappear. I think TV will eventually vanish and go Internet
and then they'd likely be obsoleted because that is the only mass market
for them that I know of.
I can't see TVs ever loosing a tuner. That would only happen when TV
station broadcasts go away and I don't think that is at all on the
horizon.
As internet speeds creep up, by the time we all have a bundle of fibres the bandwidth supplied by air broadcast will become pointless and almost worthless. The end looks inevitable. A single fibre bundle can wipe out uhf tv, all current radio bands and phone lines, so it will for cost reasons.
Except that they will never bring fiber to every household. There are
lots of places that don't even have cable which is why there is satellite..
The whole developed world has mains electicity supplied, a huge undertaking to achieve. Why? Its worth it. Living in 50 or 100yrs time without fast internet will be unthinkable, just as we're no longer prepared to live with a 32v generator in the basement. It'll happen. In this country the rare houses with no mains supply are worth 10s of thoussands less because of it. That price brings a lot of willingness, and so it will with internet eventually.
NT