I guess Congress is keen to kick everyone off the analog bandwidth so they can auction it ASAP.
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:14 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: US Government might make you buy a new TV in 2006 This is interesting because it's almost a reversal of recent FCC moves. Rough order of events: - Congress mandates DTV by 2003. Analog will be cut off in 2006. - Companies complain. Digital TV's ludicrously expensive. - Congress mandates DTV broadcasts by 2006. Some stations analog cut off if the market is 80% digital. - Companies drag their feet. Digital TV's still significantly more than Analog, but being bought by lots of people. Not enough sets sold by 2002 to satisfy Congress. - Congress mandates all TVs under 14" to be sold with digital tuners by 2004, but admits that the 2006 goal was overly ambitious for analog cutoff. *Major turning point.* - Companies complain that it will raise costs. Companies complain about recording digital signal. - Congress now wants to mandate Encryption standard for DTV to force meeting the first 2006 deadline. Whatever. Kevin Graeme > -----Original Message----- > From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:54 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: US Government might make you buy a new TV in 2006 > > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/810360.asp?0dm=C15LT > > U.S. lawmakers are working on an effort that would render standard > televisions and VCRs obsolete within five years by requiring > broadcasters to switch to digital, copy-protected signals. A proposal > released Thursday by Rep. Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House of > Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, would require > broadcasters to transmit digital signals by the beginning of 2006, and > require them to cease standard, analog broadcasts by the end of that > year. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
