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Build Your Own TV Without Broadcast Flags

Posted by Zonk on from the conscientious-objector dept.

doom writes "An account of an event sponsored by the EFF, a "roll your own television" build-in. The San Francisco Bay Guardian has coverage in an article entitled Build Your TV!". From the article: "According to the FCC, the flag is going to ease the nation's transition from today's analog televisions to tomorrow's high-definition televisions. What exactly does it mean for a government agency to "ease" the transition from one kind of TV signal to another? In this case, it seems to mean making the entertainment industry feel very warm and fuzzy inside." The EFF's efforts against the flag have been covered before on Slashdot.

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  1. Bush won't let this happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bush is a great president and he will not let this broadcast flag happen under his watch. I know liberal /. probably doesn't get this, but the Republicans are all about SMALLER gov't, people.

    This is going no where as long as Republicans are leading this great nation.

    1. Re:Bush won't let this happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In republican America , Broadcast Flags you

    2. Re:Bush won't let this happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      What, you think he's going to let some liberal hippy types to burn the broadcast flag? No way!

    3. Re:Bush won't let this happen by SlayerofGods · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ahhh but you see it's all part of Bush's master plan.
      If he runs the country out of money we'll have no choice but to shrink the government.
      He's a tricky one that Bush.

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      Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
  2. I'm not going to take it anymore by Skapare · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not gonna to take it anymore. I'm gonna toss the damned boob tube out the window.

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    now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
  3. Sarah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    'ALL I WANT is to make a high-definition copy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, save it on a DVD, and loan it to my friend," says Sarah Brydon, looking up from a long table covered with half-built computers.

    Err... what's wrong with this picture? Women don't look up from tables covered with half-built computers... do they?!

  4. Re:Wha? by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2, Funny

    So why are we worried?

    Because the EFF wants you to be worried.

    The more worried you are, the more likely you are to donate to them.

  5. Upcoming DIY kit seminars: by deacon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Electroshock machine

    Lobotomy apparatus

    Automated Librium making apparatus

    Hell, if you want to make sure that your brain never gets to do anything without some sort of institutionalized coercion, why stop at making a TV?

    I hear you cry: "TV is good for me, and you are just a humorless crank for criticizing it!"

    To which I reply: Alcohol and Heroin addicts say much the same thing about their brain-restraints of choice.

    If the thought of someone criticizing your TV watching makes you angry or defensive, you need to get help.

  6. Bending Unit 22 by B3ryllium · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bah, screw you guys. I'm going to build my own TV, with hookers ... and blackjack.

    In fact, forget the TV ...





    And the blackjack.

  7. Re:Ease the transition? by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 3, Funny
    Can someone explain the FCC's comment that the broadcast flag will ease transition to HDTV?

    How can the FCC beleive that a technology designed only to prevent useability will be a benefit to end users in any way?

    You don't understand. The broadcast flag eases transition to HDTV by getting plenty of HDTV sets out into the marketplace! Indeed, as other posters have pointed out, HDTV sets manufactured before the deadline are under no obligation to honor the broadcast flag. So how is the smart consumer gonna react, hmmm?