[opendtv] Re: FCC Eliminates Simulcast Rules

  • From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:58:47 -0400

Sure, but then it would be impossible to devote the entire bandwidth to HD. 
Force broadcasters to offer lower quality HD in order to maintain simulcast? 
That doesn't make sense.  Hence the change.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It would have made no difference. The simulcast rule only
> said that the "main" program stream shown in the analog
> channel had to be simulcast in a digital channel. It didn't
> say that main stream had to be HDTV. In theory, other
> subchannels of the digital channel could have been HD
> rather than the main channel, or none needed be HDTV.

 
 
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