> But in this case there was a far simpler path to glory. The > FCC is empowered to regulate interstate communications. This > doesn't apply to the insides of your PC unless your PC is > sitting on the state line.
Not quite right. I am a FCC licenced radio operator (ham radio). The fcc has the right to regulate the avaliable frequences, power levels and modulation systems for radio trasmitters used inside the usa. It has nothing to do with state lines. Radio signals dont obey state lines, only propagation. As far as modulation, the fcc cannot by itself add the requirement for a flag in an already existing modulation scheme it currently can only indicate what modulation schemes can be used on a given frequency. For the over the air tv broadcasts currently NTSC is allowed (I think, not a lawyer). I agree that the next attempt will be with congress. There will probably be a parrallel attack to get the a second standard passed. Perhaps something along the lines of NTSC and NTSC-PR for property rights enabled and try to get that enabled as a second standard. Then they can force us to use the new standard in preference to the old one and of course and any device thats PR enabled will obey a bunch of flags. Other than the FCC madate portion of my soapbox the rest is purely my opinion. Bill
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
