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FCC Mandates Digital Tuners
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.
In this matter, I'm glad fcc is in regulation. Although fcc keeps pushing back technology deadlines, it'd be a cold day in hell before broadcasters would voluntarily establish hdtv technologies. It's almost never seen as a fiscal investment. Without enthusists seeking to improve quality, we'd still be watching black and white as far as broadcasters would be concerned. Remember - hdtv was around decades ago, and is only seeing the light now. If it takes the fcc to force it down their throats, then so be it - its all the better for the consumer.