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FCC Mandates Digital Tuners

Posted by michael on from the daddy,-what's-UHF dept.

Gekko writes "The FCC has caved to pressures and has rolled back their mandate to requiring HDTV to 2007." A follow-up to this article: looks like the answer is "yes", although an extra year's delay has been added. Cherish your analog televisions, they will be collector's items. Update: 08/08 20:38 GMT by M : Declan McCullagh notes that there was also a vote on the broadcast flag concept to prevent copying of digital television - a set of draft regulations will be released next week.

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  1. Digital tuners? by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've always used my fingers to change channels, what else have people been using?

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  2. Re:Brief history of HDTV by mikefoley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they really say Fuck that many times?

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  3. Re:Thats what you think! by The+Rogue86 · · Score: 2, Funny

    your proposal is acceptable!
    -FCC

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