There is NOT A CHANCE of starting over. The clock is ticking www.mstv.com. It would take about two years -- minimum to do the studies and the proceeding at the FCC to begin the process, if the FCC was so disposed.
Your post-cutoff analysis is somewhat flawed, since the FCC has previously said
that permitting OFDM on broadcast bands won't even be considered until after
analog sunsets. So, sometime after analog is off (I suspect we're talking
about the sunset of LPTV analog, by the way, not full service analog), the FCC
may open a proceeding that will take years, to permit OFDM.
That ain't starting over; it's just being permissive about OFDM.
May you live so long.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Nov 8, 2006 8:21 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Let the games begin
There is still a good chance of starting over. But I don't think we
will call it that and I'm fairly certain it cannot happen until we
actually turn of analog and everybody gets to use ATSC for awhile. So
we should just get on with it. ;-)
- Tom
John Shutt wrote:
Craig,
I was all for this option in 1999, and 2000, and 2001, and even today,
but any realistic chance of starting over was killed with the tuner
mandate.
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
And there is still another alternative.
START OVER
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