[SBE] technology at 2008 NAB

[A9xw at cs.com]

There is new technology?  Something beyond LED tower lights, new AM 
di=tri=quad couplers? wide band FM, UHF emitters, solid state UHF transmitters, DTV 
exciters with MPH etc, 5.1 to 22 channel audio,  200" plasma screens, 1/4" thick 
bioLED TV screens you can roll up, RED ONE super HD cams, using 144 flash 
memory cards for a video server, DTV STB's and other stuff left over from the 
January CEA convention? SFN test results from NYC? Indoor DTV reception "blues" 
[as in blue screen], Blu-Ray gonna make it to broadcast? How is the FCC going to 
auction "white space" that is clogged with LPTVs? Smartware "white space" 
consumer products causing IM in receivers? 
Cheap 8 VSB modulators/exciters for under $5k to drive old analog rigs? What 
will you do with the last hour of analog broadcast time? Will there be a 
replacement for the $29 5" B&W drug store portable TV for DTV? The ones I tested 
from Best Buy last year were crap direct conversion units. Will viewers finally 
give up on their non sat/cable TV sets and watch TV on their PC's using the 
USB or built in tuner cards? Are there cheap ways of logging 4-6 channels in 
multicast with 1 or more in HD or do we just convert to the analog in on the old 
VHS machines? Will someone introduce a multichannel DTV DVR (hard drive 
recorder) for off air as they use in CCTV to monitor 16-24 or more video inputs? 

You holding out on us Chriss? Inquiring minds want to know. 

Henry