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In article , Mxsmanic
wrote: Whisky-dave writes: So no one has a digital TV, or are you saying it's all just advertising or marketing. All display technologies are analog. All Huh? A single counter example makes your statement false? OK, here goes. I have a purely digital display in my living room. The first analog component in the display system is my eyes. It's a projector TV with a TI DLP device. The mirrors are flicked with digital signals. The flicks are timed; no analog technology, just digital counters. The colour wheel carries no signal information. The light source is constant, so no signal there either. There is not a single analog component in the signal path all the way from the antenna to the screen. I'm not sure how LCD TVs work. If the light transmission is digitally clocked as I suspect it is, then they too are purely digital devices. So maybe we can say "nearly all display technologies made in the last few years are purely digital" -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |
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In article , Mxsmanic
wrote: Elliott Roper writes: OK, here goes. I have a purely digital display in my living room. The first analog component in the display system is my eyes. It's a projector TV with a TI DLP device. The mirrors are flicked with digital signals. The flicks are timed; no analog technology, just digital counters. The colour wheel carries no signal information. The light source is constant, so no signal there either. There is not a single analog component in the signal path all the way from the antenna to the screen. I guess you don't design DLP devices for a living. OK, you tell me where the analog components are. I'm not sure how LCD TVs work. I agree. You are right. LCD's vary their brightness as an analog of voltage applied to twist the polarisation. Now go away and read how DLP's work. I'm right about them. Timers, by the way, are analog devices. Timers are digital. The last analog timer was a sand hourglass. Go away and observe a mechanical clock ticking and come back when you have a clue by four. You have got your tiny mind in a rut where you insist any physical device is analog. That is pure drivelling malarkey. Timers in everything are counters, Counting is a digital operation. There is no sense it being an analog of anything." Since 1967, the second has been defined to be the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom." [1] I'm typing this on a digital computer, where the only analog components are the very first and last stages of audio i/o - a microphone being shaken by sound pressure and a tinny little speaker being shaken by the output of a D/A converter and a mickey mouse amplifier, and I now reluctantly admit, the LCD pixels on the display. 1. Unashamedly lifted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |
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Elliott Roper wrote:
In article , Mxsmanic wrote: Elliott Roper writes: OK, here goes. I have a purely digital display in my living room. The first analog component in the display system is my eyes. It's a projector TV with a TI DLP device. The mirrors are flicked with digital signals. The flicks are timed; no analog technology, just digital counters. The colour wheel carries no signal information. The light source is constant, so no signal there either. There is not a single analog component in the signal path all the way from the antenna to the screen. I guess you don't design DLP devices for a living. OK, you tell me where the analog components are. The entire RF portion is purely analog with the exception of any control circuitry, which may or may not be digital. I'm not sure how LCD TVs work. I agree. You are right. LCD's vary their brightness as an analog of voltage applied to twist the polarisation. Now go away and read how DLP's work. I'm right about them. Timers, by the way, are analog devices. Timers are digital. The last analog timer was a sand hourglass. Go away and observe a mechanical clock ticking and come back when you have a clue by four. Heh heh, most mechanical clocks are digital devices, and have been for many decades! The display is pseudo analog, but most of the gears, and the clock's hands, move in discrete increments. There's a little device in there called a "governor" I think, that is in fact a mechanical analog to digital converter. The drive spring or motor is analog, but the timing accuracy of the clock is accomplished with that ADC. You have got your tiny mind in a rut where you insist any physical device is analog. That is pure drivelling malarkey. Timers in everything are counters, Counting is a digital operation. That is virtually true, but not exactly. There are still many timers that just us an RC circuit and a very simple comparitor. No count at all, just wait for the voltage to rise to a given level. That, however, does not detract from the logic of you comments directed at what mxsmanic has said. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:29:53 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote: Elliott Roper writes: OK, here goes. I have a purely digital display in my living room. The first analog component in the display system is my eyes. It's a projector TV with a TI DLP device. The mirrors are flicked with digital signals. The flicks are timed; no analog technology, just digital counters. The colour wheel carries no signal information. The light source is constant, so no signal there either. There is not a single analog component in the signal path all the way from the antenna to the screen. I guess you don't design DLP devices for a living. I'm not sure how LCD TVs work. I agree. Timers, by the way, are analog devices. Not if they work by counting pulses. Regards, Eric Stevens |
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