On Jan 11, 11:26*am, " wrote:


Most laws are to the benefit of some and the detriment of others. You
apparently believe you got the short end this time. So what? Obtain
whatever equipment you need to watch TV and get on with your life.
Losing a channel or two? BFD.

Try for a little perspective. Your life must be pretty sweet if this is
the only thing you have to complain about.

now someone dropped the ball, when channels that could be watched are
no longer there, or there for just minutes a day, in flawless quality.

Flawless quality? Bull! Another area where the ball was dropped is
that the entire action addresses the video portion of the transmitted
signal, not the audio portion. Therefore audio & video are separated,
the video digitally processed, and then reunited with the audio at a
mismatched time. It is left to the descretion of the individual tv
stations how to merge the audio with the video. Now the lip sync
problem is readily apparent on many channels, especially NBC. In many
cases the station engineers are ignoring the problem in hopes that
'someone else' will come up with a standard, fix, & cost of the fix.
Others are adding video-to-audio delays to catch the 'majority' of lip
sync problems but not all. Another government screwup where no one
read the fine print.

Red