Re: OT: TV dictatorship


Don Bowey wrote:
On 7/1/06 8:23 PM, in article
1151810587.014041.195870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Luhan"
<luhanis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Robert Baer wrote:
I suppose that you know that our "free" "democracy" has dictated that
all analog TV stations and sets will be scrapped, in "favor" of digital.
There is *no* compatibiity between the two, and there was zero
attempt for any kind of compatibility.
This dictatorial decree has many reprocussions:
1) You will no longer be able to get any TV station free. With analog,
one could make their own antenna and view one or more stations if the
signal was of reasonable strength.
2) Right now, you have to $pay$ about $30 per month to get any (digital)
TV stations - and that is only due to the competition from the free
analog stations.
3) Rates for TV stations will skyrocket when the competition from free
stations is demolished. Expect to see more fragmentation; different
classes or groups of stations at different rates (it is already present;
it will grow). There will never be free access to any TV station or
stations after the destruction of analog stations.
4) You will have only two "choices": $pay$ for cable or $Pay$ for satellite.
5) Your analog sets will be totally useless for digital stations.
6) Somebody can get rich (for a while) by making and selling
digital-to-analog converters.
6) Despite RoHS and WEEE, the landfills will get a lot more lead.

Its not clear at this time whether the signals will be digital, or
scrambled digital. Looks like they are trying to sneak in scrambling
claiming it to be part of digital tv.

Luhan


Sneak in??

Scrambling is a part of many digital transmission systems to improve binary
1's density in the signal. It greatly improves receiver performance.

I'm not refering to the tranmission standard - whatever that turns out
to be. I'm wondering if encryption is going to be the standard so that
you need to pay-per-tv no matter how you receive the signal.

Luhan

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