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From: The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>
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On 3/15/24 1:09 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/15/24 11:21 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> >    Exactly! His term "classical TV" didn't mean a thing to me, way t=
oo
>> > ambiguous. OTOH, I knew what "linear TV" means.
>>=20
>> Is it the opposite of logarithmic TV?  I've been watching it since 194=
8=20
>> or so and I've never heard that term.  OTA?
>=20
>    It's somewhat reasonably explained in J=F6rg's reference, so I sugge=
st
> to read that.
>=20
>    It's 'normal'/'scheduled'/real-time/<whatever> TV as we've always
> known it. The transmission technology is not really relevant, so it
> covers both OTA and any other method, cable, satellite, etc..
>=20
>    I have cable TV, but most of what I watch has been recorded (by me),=

> so it's no longer "linear TV". If that hasn't confused you, I have to
> try harder,

No need, you did a fine job!  I was more interested in where the word=20
itself came from as a descriptor of 'original' TV.

"Where in hell did THAT usage come from?" frequently stops me in my track=
s.

--=20
Cheers, Bev
  "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people
   maintaining a free civil government."
        -- letter from Thomas Jefferson to Baron vonHumboldt, 1813