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FCC Speeds Up Digital TV Signal Deadlines
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."
that even governmental interference can't get it accepted, something is very wrong.
Never happen.
Good, maybe they can get off their lazy good-for-nothin' keesters and get a job!
Now go mow the lawn!
and now back to the fallout shelter...
Because that is their job.
From fcc.gov:
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
The FCC is charged with regulating who may broadcast and receive to and from the electromagnetic spectrum, an inherently public resource. Some of these bands they regulate more strictly than others. One of the bands they regulate strictly is the one on which television signals are broadcast and received. As part of this the FCC defines what are the standards of televisions.
Well, that's all for this week. Be sure to tune in next time on "fun questions from slashdotters", when a Libertarian playing dumb will want to know why the Department of Education feels like it has to keep getting itself involved with the schools
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I don't know. I'm worried that televisions will get too intelligent in the future. I have a recurring dream that I am watching my new LCD "Buck Rogers in the 21st Century" TV and a commercial comes on, so I get up to make a sandwich but as soon as I start to leave-- the show comes back on. Then when I sit back down to watch it the commercial comes back. Every time I try to get up this happens again. So I give in and run to the kitchen while my show is on. But it's a dream so, you know, I'm always running in slow motion. Finally I make it and I can hear my show in the other room while I spread peanut butter and jelly on two slices of bread. It sounds really good. I can tell from the laughtrack that I'm missing some really funny shit. I literally throw the knife in the sink from four feet away and run as fast as I can to the couch. My show is still on. I made it. My butt touches the couch cushion as I take a bite of my sandwich and fix my eyes on the screen... just in time to see the commercial.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
We'd rather have them rioting in the streets.
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How about an advertising flag?
The recorders can skip content marked as an ad!
I know you're kidding, but are you really sure you want THIS administration to decide what constitutes "intelligent" programming?
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