Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For Digital TV

phil reed writes "According to this article on Digital Spy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a Federal Communications Commission ruling requiring that all TVs with 13-inch screens or larger must be equipped with a digital tuner by July 2007. FCC press release here (warning - PDF document). The Court specifically cited foot-dragging on the part of the industry, and noted the chicken-and-egg problem. Here's the Washington Post story." sdriver writes adds a link to CNN's coverage.

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Re:how is this an issue

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You can get lead substitutes which you add to your gasoline. It costs a couple bucks which used to be a big deal except now fuel is two bucks a gallon. Oh ho you say, you can get 87 octane for $1.50 in many places! That's true, but it won't do you a bit of good in most of those old cars, which have fairly high compression (remember, this is before they detuned the shit out of everything on the road) and which generally demand at least 89 octane fuel and often 92. Of course, you can only get up to 91 around here. This is why lead substitute often comes in the same bottle as octane booster.

I had a 1960 Dodge Dart Phoenix, the 2 door model, with the B block 318. It had about 240hp, and 340ft-lb. It actually got reasonable mileage too. A 318 is a 5.2 liter engine, which is not unreasonably large. However it had 9:1 compression and so if I wanted to run low-grade fuel, a full tank (21 gallons) of fuel required one container of lead substitute with octane booster, and one container of octane booster. Remember, one bottle treats ten gallons.