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[IP] More 2007 nonsense: Digital Signals Rule for New TVs Upheld




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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:37:12 -0500
From: Bob Frankston <rmfxixB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: More 2007 nonsense: Digital Signals Rule for New TVs Upheld
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx

<http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIGITAL_TV?SITE=MAFRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DIGITAL_TV?SITE=MAFRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Basically the courts upheld the requirement that TVs have 1950?s style tuners (spiffed up with a digital veneer_ in 2007 so they can so they can go home just watch TV as it was broadcast in the 1950?s ? over the air.

I recently bought a new TV ? a HDTV capable one. Actually, it?s a Sony computer monitor with 9:6 (more precisely 1280:768) and there is no tuner because I realize that there was no reason to have it since I get a signal from the cable box and the computer. In the future it will be even simpler ? just a digital stream without futzing with the wires.

That the FCC and Congress can?t understand this is bad enough. But it also means that they cannot conceptualize the Internet. Already the CableCos are offering video on demand ? a private stream for each viewer. This means they can deliver an IP stream and that that stream can carry the HDTV signal. Most important, that approach is far simpler then a return to rabbit ears (for those who remember those old antennae).

The ROI on all this is negative compared with the value of building on IP connectivity.

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