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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 other news:
Gamers worldwide shrieked with anger when it was announced that all games slated for 2007 release will require 32GHz P7 CPUs with 3GB PC-80,000 Ram.
"How will I ever afford that? ARGH!" exclaimed one of the disgruntled riot members.
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Analog/Digital converter, cable boxes, Satellite Boxes, have you not been reading the articles you guys have been posting? This will be a $50-$200 purchase, in 4-5 years, at that, and no replacement on analog sets is required.
Burn my karma, like I give a crap, but this is posted by Michael, the retarded editor.
See, he helps edit a successful site, that features people posting commentary. But, much like the RIAA doesn't want people to listen to its music, Michael doesn't like people posting to this board.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
A lot of people are going to hate to hear this, but this decision to mandate the installation of digital tuners was really needed. How else were we going to move to a digital future if no one's buying it? Force it. It's something we need, so don't complain.
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IMHO, of course.
May the SOURCE be with you.
The FCC has mandated that all toasters must now support the toasting of both sides of the bread equally at the same time. Anyone found with a toaster which only toasts one side of the bread, or is not compatible with bagels will be fined and imprisoned.