I think that by 2008 the prices of digital television sets should be about as
cheap as analogue ones are now. Digital TV will still be free-to-air for
ordinary programming (they may charge for the interactive parts, if any). One
major reason why the government wants to cut off analogue television is so
the spectrum it used will revert back to them. They can then sell it to
somebody else and make $billions.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:53, John Rigby wrote:
> Welcome to 1984.
> In the far off mythical land of Oz - (Oztralia to the untravelled)
> the Media Moguls and Glovenment (not a spelling error) tried to sell
> us on "Digital TV" - nobody was interested. So they simply announced
> that we all had 7 years to save up for one ( prices here start at
> $4000) because in 2008 they will simply cutoff free-to-air normal
> TV. There will be no choice and Big Brother WILL be watching us
> all.........
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
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