[Vision2020] Digital television

[Ron Force]

The government is counting on the sale of the analog TV spectrum to make the
deficit smaller, and the Bush tax cuts more plausible in the short run.

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@uidaho.edu
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
> Behalf Of Carl Westberg
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 3:36 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Digital television
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> Okay, here's a new topic.  Yesterday's Spokesman had an article about all
> television stations switching to digital broadcast by January 2007.  This
> move will force television set owners to either buy a HDTV by
> that date, or,
> if they have an analog set with AV outputs, buy a convertor to switch the
> signal from digital back to analog.  Granted, the prices will go
> down over
> the next few years, but right now the average price of a HDTV is, what,
> about 600 dollars?  For a lower end set?  And the convertors are a few
> hundred dollars, also.  Does anyone else find this a little
> unsettling?  I
> just bought a brand new 27 inch set a couple of years ago.  Is
> this going to
> create a vast TV burial ground?
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>                  Carl Westberg Jr.
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