[opendtv] Re: Google And Verizon are Setting Our Public Internet Policy
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:54:48 -0700
Craig wrote.
The FCC gave the Grand Alliance the keys to the store.
That is the way is was....
GA was steadfastly AGAINST standard definition video formats and
multicasting, because they were concerned that *Congress might reduce
channel allocations to 2 MHz - enough to replicate the NTSC service that
was being replaced*
And now, fifteen years later, there is a current plan to reduce bandwidth,
though it is brokered by the FCC.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:35 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Google And Verizon are Setting Our Public Internet
Policy
At 6:51 PM -0500 8/10/10, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
But it does remind me about the time when several corporate interests
tried to redefine the way (H)DTV was supposed to be structured. And how
(then FCC Chairman) Reed Hundt seemed to have been derailed by that, for a
few months anyway, and then regained his composure.
The FCC gave the Grand Alliance the keys to the store.
The only action by the FCC that was meaningful was when Chairman Al Sikes
told the companies developing prototype systems that the system WOULD BE
digital, after Generl Instruments demonstrated a digital system with a
forerunner of MPEG-2.
After that the FCC did little more than act as a cheerleader. And Hundt
helped the Grand Alliance by pushing for multicasting in 1995, after it
was obvious that Congres was going to authorize the new DTV service. Up to
that point the GA was steadfastly AGAINST standard definition video
formats and multicasting, because they were concerned that Congress might
reduce channel allocations to 2 MHz - enough to replicate the NTSC service
that was being replaced.
Regards
Craig
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