Politico wants to move up DTV deadline

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"Politico.........."

While I generally approve of Mr. McCain this article is full of almost everything except hard truth.

"If this spectrum was available on Aug. 28, 2005," he said, referring to the date Hurricane Katrina struck the port city, "a lot of things would have been different."

Having this spectrum available would not have changed the fact that people were not evacuated.
Having this spectrum available would not make radios that use this spectrum magically appear.
These radios have to be designed, developed, approved by the FCC as well as other agencies, put into production and paid for by the various agencies who will use them as well as time for installation and training.
This would have done nothing to make up for the incompetance of people in charge there.

"Enthusiasm for the shift to digital television extends well into the technology realm..."

Gosh, what a surprise! "By one consumer group's count, as many as 80 million television sets rely on analog signals, and would need to be wired for digital cable or outfitted with the digital-to-analog converter boxes."

"But by 2009, only about 7 percent of television viewers--still several million--will be relying solely on analog, "over-the-air" broadcasts, according to Consumer Electronics Association estimates."

So the CEA believes that maybe 70 million sets (depending on number of sets per viewer, slick transition there between number of sets and percentage of viewers) will be digital-ready in some 3 years? Sounds awfully optimistic to me.

So much bs, doubletalk, apples-to-oranges comparisons and plain old spin.

Posted by: bony tryan   Posted on: 10/19/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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