Re: US digital terrestial TV a disaster?

From: ddwyer (dd_at_ddwyer.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/25/04


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:51:11 +0100

In article <tq7nd05gs19vi2mc65kh52n7ukthr5usqd@4ax.com>, PaulCsouls
<paulcsouls@worldnet.att.net> writes
>Sounds about right. The major movie studios, wireless service
>providers, and the cable and satellite companies are all the same
>companies.
In the UK we are catching up with the US as per the number of channels
available.
Assuming that there is a fairly fixed revenue for programming the money
available for the program material is 1/the number of channels. So our
program quality is deteriorating to US levels.
High definition rubbish is still rubbish.

-- 
ddwyer


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