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Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs?
jonerik writes "According to this article in USA Today, the FCC is expected next week to require all new TV sets to include digital receivers by 2006. TV manufacturers are balking at the requirement, which they say would increase the price of new TVs by about $200. The National Association of Broadcasters counters that their study shows that the price increase would be half that, and would decrease to about $15 by 2006. The government, eager to sell off the TV broadcast spectrum to wireless carriers, is between a rock and a hard place, with sales of HDTVs slower than expected, broadcasters and cable systems not exactly jumping at the bit to take on the cost of reconfiguring for digital broadcasts, and a public that seems pretty satisfied with traditional analog TVs."
jumping at the bit
Did you mean chomping at the bit or jumping at the chance?
Whatever you meant, don't count your chickens before they cross the road.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
So people in the US get a piece of crap (worse spectrum usage, no doppler tolerance -> no mobile apps).
Why whould people buy it?
See McDonalds for details...
At first it was really hard to find something else to do, but after a few months the anxiety gradually eased. Now I'm looking out of the window or, if it is raining outside (I don't like rain), I lie on my bed and stare at the cracks in the ceiling.
I heartily recommend giving away your TV.
Your wife is that boring, eh?
here in the USA if republicans are in charge at the time of switchover, they'll probably just arrest the people that don't have the TVs for being terrorists.
I don't think it's her head that people want to see four feet across...
-jon
Remember Amalek.
So the FCC won't let me be
Or let me be me so let me see
Yeah, but it's so much more fun to rant about how evil things are! :)
Al Qaeda has ninjas!