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FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-flip-books-for-another-5-years dept.

walterbays writes ""The FCC voted 5-0 to require that cable operators must continue to make all local broadcasts available to their users, even those with analog televisions." I don't understand how AT&T manages to deliver U-verse without any analog channels. Did they get it classified as not-cable and exempt from existing rules? Or as a result of this vote, will they suddenly have to drop 50 SD channels to make room for 5 NTSC channels?"

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  1. IN OTHER NEWS by fat_mike · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Copper phone lines still rule..."You can have my copper when you take it from my cold, dead hands" man says

    Somehow PC game company still manage to make money against the console "PC Killers"

    Wireless is the Ethernet Killer - though millions of people haven't figured out how to secure they're ethernet or wireless systems

    Slashdot is still relevant

  2. Re:TVs are too good, and have been for years by carlivar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    there isn't much choice you fat fucking Americans could do about it

    Excuse me, but I don't fuck fat.

    I would have already colluded with other television manufacturers to produce units that would spontaneously fail after 2 and a half years

    Doesn't Sony already do this now? Maybe the other manufacturers played a trick on them.

    Like our cars! Come to think of it, there's another industry that you lazy, fat-assed, dumbfuck Americans couldn't compete.

    Yes, the non-U.S. car companies are smart to go to great lengths to prevent their factory workers from organizing. I'm sure you are aware of the Fun Fact that most U.S.-based factories producing Asian cars are non-union.

    Troll, of course.

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