[BC] The HD Alliance is a good idea, but...

[Rich Wood]

------ At 12:23 AM 1/17/2006, Milspec390 at aol.com wrote: -------

>   Why didn't TeamD do as did HDTV and buy spectrum so as to not interfere?

One problem here. HDTV didn't buy spectrum. In fact it created all 
sorts of complaints that TV stations were given extra spectrum free. 
Many believed that broadcasters should pay for spectrum. 
Unfortunately, the auctioning of spectrum has set a precedent we may 
live to regret. Broadcasters didn't beg for HDTV. Most resisted, 
kicking and screaming. If the government had charged for the spectrum 
they wouldn't have been able to force the DTV conversion.

Other services were willing to pay handsomely for spectrum for new 
services. Broadcasters were already fat n' happy with the cash 
cows  they already had. Early on the only advantage they saw was the 
ability to have 4 standard definition stations in the space of one. 
The unexpected popularity of HDTV killed that. Except for PBS, most 
DTV broadcasters are doing what IBUZ will do, dump their doppler 
radar on the second channel and walk away.

Their disadvantage is that there's no Jabba the HDTV.

Rich

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