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To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (21863)1/7/2000 8:02:00 PM
From: Volsi Mimir  Read Replies (1) of 53068
 
FYI-- interesting news --FCC Warns of Action in Digital TV
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard, speaking to a packed room at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show here, gave the two sides until April to develop a way for new digital TV sets to connect with cable systems.

``When you have market failure, and we do have market failure, it is the responsibility of government to address it,' he said. ``To date, the FCC has exercised restraint in this matter. Your time and our patience is running out.'

The room fell silent at Kennard's remarks, and it wasn't until Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro stepped to the podium and thanked Kennard for his ``honesty' that the room's tension was broken by scattered laughter.

Digital technology allows broadcasters to air movie-quality, high-definition shows or send as many as six ordinary shows over a single TV channel. The FCC has mandated that TV broadcasters, set makers and network operators move toward new digital standards.

But the transition has been slow for many reasons, in part because TV set makers have not reached agreement with cable operators over an expensive piece of interface hardware that attaches to either TV sets or cable TV set-top boxes.

[forced change might create opportunities or alliances
and standards for digital broadcasting and]
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