Re: FCC Orders All TV's To Have Digital Tuners By 2007

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

> On 8 Aug 2002 at 15:23,  wrote:
>
> >   Saw an Associated Press report on line thru Yahoo news that the FCC
> > commissioners voted 3-1 today to require that TV manufacturers have
> > digital tuners in all TV sets by July 2007.
>
> Well, as we saw with UHF, sometimes it takes government regulation to get
> a new service going.

Yea, but is this a "market driven" thing?  I think not.

The digital recievers have been out there.  The public doesn't need/want
them.  They are content with getting a normal analog TV reciever.

If the public doesn't seem to want to pay extra for this...why is gov't.
getting involved and forcing everyone to accept it?

JP