Re: Cable HD TV Systems

"Corporate American Citizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> There are two reasons why digital television is being pushed.
>
> Money.  Digital compression permits greater channel capacity within
> mediums whose carrying capacities are inherently fixed (the amount of
> usable spectrum on cable systems, the number of available transponders
> on commercial television satellites, etc.).  With digital television,
> Viacom gets to reap more profit by launching 7 MTVs, and Comcast gets
> to reap more sales by convincing us that we can't live without them.
>

Close. Actually money is the only reason for the mandate. Congress has
already included money in their budgets from auctioning off the analog TV
spectrum after the transition is complete. That is the entire driving force
behind setting a date of 2006 to turn off analog.