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FCC Pushes Digital TV and Digital Restrictions
Mansing writes "The Washingington Post has an article describing the FCC's new push to move digital TV more into the homes of consumers. While this sounds like a good thing, read on. The Congressmen who are "helping" this to happen are none other than Senator Fritz "Disney" Hollings and Representative Billy "Baby Bell" Tauzin. And why do you think they want digital TV rolled out faster? Can you say Pay to View?"
You know the thing I really hate about digital cable and satallite...You have to have to rent the converter boxes/pay per box. I am one of those types of people that has a television in every room. I want to have cable on all of those televisions, but I don't want to pay for every single hookup. I would buy the boxes, but as soon as I buy them, the cable company would probably require me to buy new ones.
The other problem happens when I want to tape one show on the VCR and watch another. You just can't do that with one cable box.
It would be nice if there was some kind of standard built into all new televisions/VCRs that could descramble the digital signal so you wouldn't need a box.
Has anyone found a cheap solution for this problem?
Foondawgy