This is slightly off topic, but related to the metric transition, in that the transition to digital TV in the U.S. is taking place in a coordinated way. . . . The report focus on the need for public information campaign to enhance the transition, as was accomplished in Great Britain and Germany.
I dont send this so that list subscribers can debate the pros and cons of digital TV, rather to show that the government has decided to take on the digital TV transition, unlike the transition to metric.
Well, it won't surprise anyone that I have a different perception of the how the FCC has handled the digital TV and HDTV situation. To put it bluntly, the government controlling the rollout of digital TV has been an unmitigated disaster, delaying its introduction by over a decade, ensuring that we did NOT get the best HDTV "solution," etc.
A perfect example of why NOT to let the government handle the metrication of the USA.
Many articles about the mess on the web; here is a relatively short one fro the Cato Institute with links to numerous papers and studies:
http://www.cato.org/tech/tk/020805-tk.html
"America's 15-year high-definition television (HDTV) industrial policy experiment has been a failure (link) by almost any standard. Although this long and miserable history (link) is too long to recall here, suffice it to say, the grand vision of the broadcast industry and public policymakers has become an expensive joke."
Jim Elwell
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