Doubleplusungood! How is this any diferent than print media, TV, or anmost anything else? Look at some of the wild statements which have appeared elsewhere! The one which comes to mind immediately is Al Gore's invention of the internet.
In terms of a lot of the information (?) content, over-the-air, cable, and satellite bandwidth are all wasted. However, one isn't wasted more than another. I can give several reasons why it should be left alone:
1) Much of my home state is rural, and we aren't alone. There is no cable. If you want anything that looks like local information, it comes over the air. 2) Neither cable nor satellite are making more than a token effort towards HDTV or SDTV. 3) When I look at an off air SDTV station, it looks so much better than satellite, there's no comparison. That's particularly true on a wide screen set. I can't comment about how it might look on cable, because they (for the most part) haven't even bothered with SDTV. 4) In those instances I can recall in which the FCC reclaimed part of the broadcast spectrum, the replacement wasn't an improvement. The old 44 mHz FM broadcast band was given to mobile radio services, as was TV channel 1. When UHF channels 70-83 were taken away, they were replaced with cell phones.
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Doubleplusungood! How is this any diferent than print media, TV, or anmost anything else? Look at some of the wild statements which have appeared elsewhere! The one which comes to mind immediately is Al Gore's invention of the internet.
In terms of a lot of the information (?) content, over-the-air, cable, and satellite bandwidth are all wasted. However, one isn't wasted more than another. I can give several reasons why it should be left alone:
1) Much of my home state is rural, and we aren't alone. There is no cable. If you want anything that looks like local information, it comes over the air.
2) Neither cable nor satellite are making more than a token effort towards HDTV or SDTV.
3) When I look at an off air SDTV station, it looks so much better than satellite, there's no comparison. That's particularly true on a wide screen set. I can't comment about how it might look on cable, because they (for the most part) haven't even bothered with SDTV.
4) In those instances I can recall in which the FCC reclaimed part of the broadcast spectrum, the replacement wasn't an improvement. The old 44 mHz FM broadcast band was given to mobile radio services, as was TV channel 1. When UHF channels 70-83 were taken away, they were replaced with cell phones.