[Vision2020] Digital television

[Troy Merrill]

 >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.

Ron,
Do you know who's interested in buying it?  Will it go the way of the am
radio band, a low cost venue for expressing extreme religous and political
opinions.

Troy Merrill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Digital television


> 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.
>
> ********************************************
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> >                  Carl Westberg Jr.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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