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Re: HDTV

Dan Strassberg wrote:
 
> A disappointing feature of the HDTV landscape is that according to the
> current plan, HDTV via cable will be incompatible in important respects with
> over-the-air HDTV broadcasts from terrestrial transmitters. The modulation
> schemes specified for the over-the-air terrestrial transmissions and the
> cable transmissions are different, and there is no obvious technical reason
> why the cable-system operators could not have adopted the over-the-air
> standard. My hunch is that this is a bid to push over-the-air TV aside and
> to make cable (plus satellite in remote areas) the only means of delivering
> TV signals to US households.

I wonder how that got past the FCC and the NAB.

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