Feds to Require Digital Receivers In All New TVs?

Posted by michael on Wednesday July 31, 2002 @02:26AM 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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Re:I love english by Monoman · 2002-07-31 03:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It should actually be "champing at the bit" but over the years it has been used incorrectly ... of course "chomping" has been adopted to be the correct term now.

Just a bit of useless knowlege I learned on some NPR show.

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Horse phrases by Animats · 2002-07-31 05:03 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's "champing at the bit". Saddle up a full Thoroughbred on a cold morning when the horse wants to take off, and you'll see snorting, blowing, pawing, and champing at the bit.
Another misused horse phrase is "free rein". You can drop the reins on the horse's neck and let the horse wander around freely and graze. It's a signal to the horse that they get to decide where to go. Working cowhands do this when things are slow, and Western bridles (hackamores or bosals) are designed to allow it.