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Chambers wrote:
> That's the main problem - the FCC has already auctioned off that
> bandwidth, and now Congress is saying it's not going to be available for
> several months!
Right. And all the people who installed equipment to use that bandwidth are
now paying interest on it with no way to use it to make money to pay the
interest. I guess that was the problem I heard about, misphrased by them or
misunderstood by me.
> I think it was PBS that said delaying the switch would cost them
> something like $40 million in electricity alone. They are REALLY
> looking forward to the lower power requirements of digital broadcast :o
Yeah. You look at some industries and don't realize how dinky some new
industries like computer software really is. :-)
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Chambers wrote:
> Fully functional DVD players can be had for $20. The converter boxes,
That's because they're sold in *much* greater volumes.
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On 2/15/2009 10:55 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> That's the main problem - the FCC has already auctioned off that
>> bandwidth, and now Congress is saying it's not going to be available
>> for several months!
>
> Right. And all the people who installed equipment to use that bandwidth
> are now paying interest on it with no way to use it to make money to pay
> the interest. I guess that was the problem I heard about, misphrased by
> them or misunderstood by me.
My bad, I thought you were talking about the current TV stations
installing new equipment :)
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Chambers wrote:
> My bad, I thought you were talking about the current TV stations
> installing new equipment :)
I was, at the time. As I said, "misphrased by them or misunderstood by me."
:-) I.e., your explanation makes a lot more sense than what I thought
others who described it were saying.
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