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Originally Posted by coryd
I understand why the quality of DTV is better, but why is it appropriate for the government to pass a law to force this change. Laws are meant to protect the people of our great country. However, I do not believe they were originally meant to force a technology change, allowing product manufacturers to sell their equipment to a mass number of households. This law does not seem to protect anyone, just fatten a few wallets. |
The law will probably fatten a lot of wallets. Cable and Satellite companies, television manufactures, and converter box manufactures probably stand to profit the most from the
digital transition.
The biggest benefit of switching to
DTV would probably be to free up some of the current television broadcast spectrum. Digital Television uses less bandwidth, so what's going to happen with the extra unused spectrum?
Here's a quote from the
Government's DTV Website:
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An important benefit of the switch to all-digital broadcasting is that it will free up parts of the valuable broadcast spectrum for public safety communications (such as police, fire departments, and rescue squads). Also, some of the spectrum will be auctioned to companies that will be able to provide consumers with more advanced wireless services (such as wireless broadband).
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