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FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the forced-upgrades dept.

sbinning writes "The FCC, in a 4-0 vote decided that all medium-sized televisions, screens between 25 and 36 inches in diagonal, must be able to receive both digital and traditional analog signals by March 1. This is four months earlier than the commission had decreed three years ago. Now if they just mandate more intelligent programming."

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  1. "off the air"? by ChipMonk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does that mean it dials up some service provider and gets it through the phone line instead?

    Or do you just mean on an alternate signal channel?

  2. Re:Say goodbye to $200 32" sets by WAR-Ink · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Maybe they should get off their, beer drinking, television watching, welfare check cashing asses and get a job?

  3. Re:Say goodbye to $200 32" sets by NineNine · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This is going to hurt America's poor the most.

    Wow. The TV industry has got you hook-line-and sinker, huh? Scary to see what good marketing can do. Here's a bit of re-education for you: TV is not an essential component of live. My girlfriend and I have been TV-free for several years now, and we're much better because of it. We're poor. We save lots of money not paying for advertising, and we have time to do things that are important to us. But more importantly:

    NOBODY is ENTITLED to a cheap TV any more than anybody is ENTITLED to have a cheap Ferrari.

  4. Does TV even make sense ? by xqcom · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    So Digital TV will allow me to have a billion TV channels. So what I am going to watch on them ? I hear people tell me that "don't worry, there will be a channel for almost anything you want, and it will be on demand".

    Well, guess what ? I ALREADY have a billion channels TODAY, on DEMAND. Its called the internet. Yeah Yeah, I cannot stream video but still I do have access to billion channels of _information_

    I am already overloaded with too much JUNK on TV. Uptil 3 months ago I had extended basic (50? channels), and I had a hard time finding anything decent. Now I am back to my 12-channels of basic TV.

    This whole digital TV thing seems to be a massive conspiracy on part of the entertainment / cable industry to screw you out of another $80 per month. Time to say NO! to your Cable Company.

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    Denial is not a river in Egypt