wihogfan
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dtv-transition-to-yesterday.ars
Interesting idea- basically they're advocating that the gov't contract with one of the satellite providers to take over the "free TV" spectrum. People would get satellite dishes and converter boxes that would let them get all the channels they currently get now for free still for free only over via satellite instead of using an over the air antenna.
The reason? In order to free up the OTA spectrum that is now being used for OTA TV for other uses. Cost estimate to convert 14 million homes that currently only get OTA TV using an antenna to satellite- $4 billion. Estimate of what could be gotten from auctioning off that OTA spectrum- $120 billion plus a lot of new innovation in technology.
Interesting idea, but I don't see anyone taking up the cause and lots of people and OTA stations and networks would fight like hell to prevent it.
Posted November 4, 2008 12:05pm in
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Isn't this what England
Isn't this what England does? I think it's called Freeview or something like that.