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Jim Yanik

aemeijers wrote in
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wrote:
On Jan 13, 10:45�am, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:
I can no longer find the message, but I'm sure that it was on one of
these two newsgroups within the past few days that I read an
allegation that the move from analog to digital for TV broadcasting
was a plot to push vast numbers of people to cable or satellite
because the digital signal is receivable only over a very small
area.

I mentioned this allegation to a broadcast engineer yesterday. He
told me that in fact many people are not getting good reception of
the OTA digital signals and are moving to cable or satellite because
many of the expensive HD TVs on the market have appallingly
insensitive antenna inputs -- far inferior to the almost-free
converter boxes that were distributed over the last couple of years.

Perce

There are proposals to elminate OTA tv completely and let the
broadcasters sell the banwidth or most of it for cell phones etc.

Uh, other than the leases recently auctioned off, the broadcasters
don't own the bandwidth to sell it. By definition and case law, the
airwaves are public property. Smells like urban legend to me.

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aem sends...

I've heard of proposals to eliminate OTA TV.
For me,that would be a major bummer;no cable and 48K dialup net service,and
TracFone prepaid cell service.
Also,what happens in power outages or natural disasters? At least now,I can
use a battery powered TV,generator,or an inverter/battery.
Cable and cellphones didn't work after Hurricane Charlie in 2004.

The FEDS would auction off the freed bandwidth...more money for them to
blow on socialist schemes.

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
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