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Originally Posted by curt_dawg2000
Yes broad band is a good idea, it still doesnt slove the promble people is having around the country with tv. The biggest thing is coverage area, because they are so few frequences to use, if too much power were added to the uhf stations it would start the same problems as low vhf stations which would be two stations on the same frequenice blooding out each other. The best I can tell in my area is the uhf stations still cover the same area as they did under anlnog, but the vhf stations cover much less because they have become uhf. I think us as americans has come to the point that we are willing to pay for tv and the cable and satiellte industry knows it. If we were all to quit cable and satiellte something would get done and in a hurry to. I guess in reality we have no choose but to pay. I think in the back of the minds of the congress that made this dtv law know that going foward more and more people are going to have to get cable or sateillte. Its american where corpeit greed has become the nom. |
Everyone needs to give
DTV a chance, as it is a new technology that still has some growing pains to deal with. There are still some stations that have not fully maximized their stations due to technical or financial reasons.
The main reason we have
DTV now is because of GREED for the almighty dollar. It was not originally the Government who started us down the
DTV conversion path. The Broadband and Cell Phone industry is mostly responsible for the
DTV conversion, and that comes back to GREED. Follow the money !!
They see a public resource (The radio spectrum itself) as a huge cash cow..No make that a huge cash Whale, because that is the size of their profit return once the abandoned spectrum is fully developed and "reclaimed" for their use. The Government sold off a public resource for private profits, and the American taxpayer and broadcasters are the ones who will pay.
The broadcasters have already contributed their share by being forced to buy new equipment throughout their infrastructure, beginning with transmitters, antennas, towers, and ending up in master control with an
HDTV capable infrastructure that basically has to be completely replaced in order to be able to broadcast digital
HDTV signals for free.
This was not a conspiracy by the cable and satellite programmers, but a big frequency grab by the Broadband and Cell phone industries to ultimately steal a finite public resource for private profits, and of course, the Government went right along with the plan.
Forget the fact that some of the spectrum was supposed to be reserved for "Emergency Responders" to get more radio spectrum, for the slice of the spectrum they will get is very small compared to the others who's obscene profit margins will make Microsoft look like a broken down street vendor with only pennies in their pockets. Now that's change you can believe in !!
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