On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:00:36 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein
Standards are a good thing. Every company (and consortium) should
have one.
>> [MORE]
>Now where, oh where, do you suppose they came
>up with that wierd figure of "30.5 meters"?
They paced it off. 1 pace = 1 meter. When they ran a little short,
they got out the tape measure, and added the extra 0.5 meter.
>You don't suppose they've converted from
>a nice round number in some other measuring
>system, doyathink?
Nope. It's suppose to go through walls. They probably paced it off
until they hit a wall, walked around to the other side, and continued
pacing.
Another possibility is that they used one of those ultrasonic
measuring tapes. They read off in tenths of a meter.
Yet another possibility is that they couldn't decide if they should
round the 0.5 up or down.
Of course, the article didn't mention if it was actually usable at
30.5 meters, or whether the error rate was sufficient to irritate the
avearge TV user. Most users can tolerate quite a bit of garbled audio
(i.e. cell phones, VoIP), but even a few artifacts on the HDTV screen
will produce an irate phone call to the cable or satellite providers
outsourced support provider.
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