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

[Ben Gore <ben@hrdent.com>]

All this stuff is going to confuse the consumers even more than they were when
they had to install little boxes on their sets to get cable tv.

I vote for manufacturers to produce generic monitors with no built in receiver
which they can use to interface through standard digital AND analog inputs to a
variety of sources - computers, DVD players, VHS VCRs, etc. The consumer can then
"plug in" the appropriate reciver/converter/whatever is needed to receive the
wanted signal. Nowadays, what's 1 more "box" plugged in in the living room?

At least this way they wouldn't have to throw out the whole unit when technology
changes and it becomes incompatible.

-Ben


dan.strassberg@att.net wrote:

> The issue is quite complex.