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Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs?

Posted by michael on from the you'll-pay-and-you'll-like-it dept.

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."

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  1. I love english by infinite9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Digital only by BitHive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your wife is that boring, eh?

  3. Re:Statistic from the article by TWR · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why do you need to see Jennifer Aniston's head four feet across?

    I don't think it's her head that people want to see four feet across...

    -jon

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