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Re: HDTV/CBS News can't win....

At 11:07 PM 12/22/98 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:

>
>At the risk of sounding like Joseph Gallant, I will make the prediction
>that the date for the turning off of analog TV will be postponed at least
>once and probably many times.  I just can't see that digital TV will catch
>on all that fast, especially not until the price comes down.  And until it
>does, the FCC just won't be able to get away with shutting off everyone's
>television reception.

Curiously, what is the rationale for forcing HDTV on us?  To make the move
to new technologies?  Then why is the FCC bothering with the expanded AM
band?  Now there's a spectrum attracting new listeners every day.

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