EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Interference I don't understand why this site keeps bringing up an argument that the broadcasters only want to stifle the internet... 99% of their viewers can already get the internet anyway, and if we accept that this will be used for "rural broadband" (which is unlikely in my opinion) many rural areas can't get TV signals, either. (Except maybe on the lower VHF bands, many of which are being phased out and will be gone for TV in 2009) Plus, most of the broadcast networks have substantial websites where at least some of that content is publicly available online.
I do think there are legitimate interference concerns here- this is increased by the fact that DTV is "all or nothing", in that if the adjacent channel is interfered with past a certain level it produces not a fuzzy signal but nothing at all. Also, the UHF television frequency band is getting more crowded as VHF-low stations must move their signals there. |
