[opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:25:03 -0500
It is probably better to undo that non-law now instead of at 2009
approaches, which would almost certainly happen. I was starting to
wonder if everyone would just pretend it was a law until the turn-off
became immanent and someone challenged to stall some more.
- Tom
John Willkie wrote:
> I did say network, right :-) On that note, I was very sad to hear last
> Friday about the demise of Sinclair's News Central due to (I was told by a
> non-Sinclair fellow) current economic realities.
>
> Your equation begs the question, since the FCC tabled consideration of COFDM
> until the DTV transition is further along (to be truthful, they might have
> meant 'never.')
>
> I see that liberal 'babe' Joan Claybrook's Public Citizen has filed a lawsuit
> on the recent budget "compromise" that appears to be unconstitutional and
> which also sets the analog sunset date in 2009. If successful, this suit
> will undo what congress did.
>
> That might create a political peg upon which to hang consideration of COFDM;
> certainly the transition will be futher along in three years. What's the
> proper "decent interval" to wait
>
> John Willkie
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>>From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 7:33 PM
>>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
>>
>>Turns out that political realities ARE engineering realities with the
>>process that exists today... So, until there is a change in the
>>political realities...
>>As I have been saying for quite some time now... "I won't say it on
>>OpenDTV, but COFDM has many advantages over 8-VSB; however I have to
>>make a business with 8-VSB."
>>
>>Oh, wait a minute, did I just say that?... or was it someone else? Oh
>>yeah, that's right, what _*/I/*_ meant to say was... "I've already said
>>it many times (not lurking) on OpenDTV, COFDM has many advantages over
>>8-VSB; however I have to make a business with 8-VSB."
>>
>>;^)
>>
>>John Willkie wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Unlike some, they're too busy to sit around and blow smoke about what
>>>"could" or even "should" have been. Take out the "blowing smoke" and you
>>>have Sinclair's position; but then one has to contemplate the political, as
>>>opposed to engineering, realities.
>>>
>>>John Willkie
>>>
>>>
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>>Mark A. Aitken
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