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

[Dennis Cope]

I guess you didn't hear about the famous WBOC (Ch. 16 analog), WHRO (Ch. 16
digital) fiasco....

Even though this was co-channel the FCC allocated the frequencies and power
levels..

Where I live when WHRO fired up my WBOC went grainy, law suits were
threatened, compromises were made, etc.......

Dennis
WESR, WCTG


------ 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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