Posted on 03/08/2008 4:59:24 AM PST by Robert Drobot
I've read one argument coming from Congress that holds this change will be a boon for employment and manufacturing. However, inasmuch as things electrical are not manufactured in our country this needed production can only benefit our not-so-good friends in China.
There is a further argument that it is necessary for some yet to be explained national security purpose.
I've come across the minutes of one Congressional staff meeting ( H.R.___, Regarding the Transition to Digital Television in which 'security' is referenced forty-six ( 38 ) times; 'national security' is referenced three ( 3 ) times; and Homeland Security is referenced five (5 ) times.
So in other words, for the most part it is called progress.
But what about the tinfoil people use to fix their indoor analog antennae? Is the tinfoil lobby working at cross-purposes?
Post 15 includes the stated reason for this. Anyone dispute that information?
There is a big discussion in the amateur radio circles about that very thing - I think you are right on target.
Should have said 14 & 15.
Obviously, the tin foil lobby is behind this so they can sell lots of tin foil hats
Ya’ll just don’t make the connection, digital signals defeat aluminium foil....go through it like butter right
to the brain stem, say hello to your new alien overlords.
DING, DING, DING, DING! We have a winner!
The FCC controls the "public airwaves". They are controlling, or attempting to control, the entire electromagnetic spectrum, they see dollar signs and there's nothing "free market" about it. Just a bunch of goobermint bureaucrats messin' things up (again). I spent the better part of 18 years dealing with those nitwits at the FCC in the wireless industry. I could tell you stories that would make your hair curl......
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpayer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees? Where is the profit from those mandated fluorescent bulbs coming from?
MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.
MCCAIN: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?
MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.
It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.
Oh, and with digital, they can squeeze many more channels in a given bandwidth as compared to analog.
This dictatorial hammer comes from Congress. The 9/11 commission's charter didn't provide it with the authority to mandate anything.
That is exactly true as well. Mandates create profits for the few, at the expense of the many.
Sounds like the democRAT mantra - Sacrifice the many to benefit us few.
There is a straightforward trade off of bandwidth for receiver/transmitter complexity. It may have escaped the author, but there has been some slight progress in electronics since the 1939 New York World's Fair.
TV channel allocations were done in the late 1940's with late 40's technology in mind... A lot has changed since then... It is about time it caught up with current technology...
It is as simple as that.
I noticed my latest HDTV's (that have the built in HD tuners)have the capacity for probably thousands of channels. Example, my channel 7 is standard digital and 7.1 is the HD counterpart.
And my newer Pioneer has channels not yet assigned signals such as "7.???" ......etc. I guess the number of channel possibilities are now infinite.....
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because the screens are made of compact fluorescent lightbulbs
“Just thinking...worst case scenario...easier to manipulate propaganda?)”
DING-DING-DING!
My thought too.
In the 20s and early 30s there was a radio station, IIRC, in Cincinnati broadcasting with 500,000 watts. People were picking it up with their fillings, on barb wire in Wyoming, and it went all the way to Australia. If we had the free market prevail, two or three of those would have dominated radio. I don't think that was a good thing. In fact government intervention ensured more broadcasters could get into the market.
HD is a improvement of the standard. People have had a 6 year notice with 1 extension. I'm sorry, I don't see the problem.
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