The problem is that none of the 'boxes' can get ALL the available programming because the FCC has stopped being the FCC. IT is in the pockets of the megalithic program providers so THEY can make
all the money by competing with each other. Because of this the consumer loses out.The FCC no longer requires that every piece of receiving equipment to be capable of receiving every program, and further that the program sources be required to transmit all programming so
that it can be received by every receiver. By 'transmit' and 'receiver' I mean to include 'streaming' and 'computer'.Today is a far cry from the 1964 FCC mandate that ALL receivers be provided with UHF tuners
so that ALL programming could be received. Cliff On 8/19/2013 4:59 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Cliff Benham wrote:Yesterday, Consumer Reports picked Western Digital's WDTV PLAY as the best deal @ $65. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=9204643They do mention that one problem with these boxes is that some of them are more limited in what they can access than others are. But they don't seem to ask the most obvious question: why limit them at all? For instance, here's the Western Digital remote control, with dedicated buttons for two or three web sites. Hmmm. There's one feature begging to become obsolete, eh? On this subject, last night I was having fun watching the original episode of Star Trek Voyager. That's the episode where they get catapulted to the Delta Quadrant of this galaxy. Exceedingly few commercials, and my bet is, NONE of these boxes have access to it. The "classic CBS" shows are available on the cbs.com site. (This particular Star Trek series, I thought, was technically quite good at the time. I'm guessing that we're getting either a made-for-analog videotaped master of the show, or that CBS is compressing these classic shows more than current shows. Because the image is noticeably soft even streamed over my 1.5 Mb/s ADSL, the titles seem huge and primitive, the sound is okay, actually, but is much better in made-for-DTV shows, and wouldn't it have been nice if these old shows were filmed in wide screen.) Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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