On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:46:36 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Jeff Liebermann wrote:
The reason that everyone did not have a universal TV set was because
the price was kept lower with single system sets and countries like the
UK, which made a substansial income from the TV license did not want
you watching tv from France or the Republic of Ireland for free.

I ran into something like that when I "visited" Israel in the early
1970's.

The UK isn't Israel.

I know. I just wanted to highlight the political aspects of video
compatibility. If I had time, I would have ranted a bit about the FCC
decision to go with 8VSB instead of COFDM. The short version is that
the FCC would accept anything that was NOT compatible with whetever
Europe (or Japan) was deploying.


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