Make FreeHIGH-DEFINITION EQUALS HIGHLY DEADLY
WHO KNEW THAT HIGH-DEFINITION television would prove so deadly? The way I see it, HD could precipitate great harm to open source (and the tinkerers who love it), competition, free speech, and the right to remix, not to mention the bottom lines for the studios and today’s TV stars.
Standard-def TV might be a little fugly (NTSC: Never Twice Same Color!), but it has this virtue: anyone can implement it. There are no patents lurking in SD, no copyrights, no license agreements. In 1979, I plugged an Apple II+ into a standard TV set. Today, I can connect a Slingbox to it. The world is full of these cheap and dirty displays, and innumerable revolutions owe their success to this fact, from ...
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