[opendtv] Re: Democrats Air Concerns About Analog Switchover
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:17:06 -0800
I suspect he knows much more about engineering than you, so he can't be all
THAT dumb. He's also a lifetime NRA member and NRA board member last I
checked.
He's the "cream" of the democratic crop.
John Willkie
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:23 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Democrats Air Concerns About Analog Switchover
Dingell is the enforcer right? The one who told broadcasters how to
vote or else on the COFDM/8-VSB vote in January of 2001. The one who
led the delegation to the DoD to tell then to shove it as to their
concerns on homeland security and COFDM.
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Bob Miller
On 11/16/06, John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Meet the new boss...
>
> John
>
> http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11084
>
> Democrats Air Concerns About Analog Switchover
>
> By Ira Teinowitz
>
> On the eve of their takeover of the House, Democrats on Thursday raised
new
> issues about the government's plan to manage the switchover from analog to
> digital TV in 2009 and hinted that the switch could be delayed if the
> program isn't handled right.
>
> "Failure to devise a consumer-friendly converter box program, or to inform
> consumers properly of its existence, could significantly jeopardize the
> public's acceptance of the transition and derail the firm deadline," said
> incoming House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell,
D-Mich.,
> and committee Democrats in a letter to the National Telecommunications and
> Information Administration. The NTIA is the president's principal adviser
on
> telecommunications policy.
>
> Democrats have been critical of the Republicans' plan for the switchover,
> suggesting insufficient money has being set aside to provide converter
boxes
> to analog households or to publicize the switch. The new letter signals
that
> those concerns will continue in the next Congress, when the Democrats take
> charge.
>
> "We continue to believe this plan is highly flawed and disadvantages the
> poor, the elderly, minority groups, and those with multiple analog
> television sets in their home," the letter states.
>
> The Democrats didn't propose to immediately change the Feb. 17, 2009,
> switchover date. Instead, their concerns are whether offering $40 coupons
> for converters only to homes without cable or satellite is sufficient,
> whether the government needs to require that converter boxes don't provide
> downgraded signals, and that the $5 million spending on a consumer
education
> touting the change is "woefully inadequate for such a broad and
fundamental
> change."
>
> The government's limiting the boxes to over-the-air households "would
> unfairly disenfranchise consumers who possess perfectly functioning analog
> televisions," according to the letter. "Consumers who have purchased
analog
> [TVs] deserve a government backed plan to hold them harmless in this
> transition."
>
> The letter said the converter boxes "at a minimum [should] replicate the
> picture and audio quality consumers experience today when watching their
> analog televisions," and called on the agency to see that the government's
> $5 million public education effort is bolstered by industry efforts.
>
>
>
>
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