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

["Hakim Madjid" <HMadjid@mindspring.com>]

> 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?

Well I'm not really sure that UHF ever 'got going'
in the way envisioned. As you probably know, The
Friendly Candy Company is re allocating the upper
part of the UHF TV spectrum to other services.

73, de Hakim (N1ZFF)