Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For Digital TV

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @11:59AM from the fiat-is-a-four-letter-word dept.

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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Still plenty of life left for your current TiVo by jkeegan · 2003-10-28 12:10 · Score: 0, Troll

Even so, there's still plenty of time to enjoy the current TiVo models. Go out, buy one, get your copy of Hacking TiVo , and have some fun. :)

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Re:so i guess we'll.... by /dev/trash · 2003-10-28 12:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Why would we? So the TV makers can snub the FCC? Won't work, if a consumer wants a 45 inch TV, a glut of 12.9 inch TVs won't change his mind.