[opendtv] Digital TV Effort Sends Wrong Signal, Group Says / Consumer advocates say the FCC shouldn't promote costly new sets. The agency says it's educating viewers.
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- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:54:01 -0400
Digital TV Effort Sends Wrong Signal, Group Says
Consumer advocates say the FCC shouldn't promote costly new sets. The
agency says it's educating viewers.
By Alex Pham
Times Staff Writer
October 8, 2004
Sofa spuds deserve better.
So says a coalition of consumer advocates and academics that Thursday
blasted a federal campaign that the group complained encouraged
Americans to acquire an expensive breed of digital boob tubes.
"Do you really believe that with all the troubles facing our nation,
the federal government should be on a crusade to encourage people to
buy costly new television sets?" the Commercial Alert coalition wrote
to federal lawmakers.
Portland, Ore.-based Commercial Alert charged that "television is a
major public health problem" and called on Congress to pull funding
for the Federal Communications Commission campaign, called "DTV: Get
It!"
...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dtv8oct08,1,5124387.story
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