Broadcasters are trying to prevent you from receiving HDTV..

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Walt Mather wrote:
>
> Broadcasters are trying to prevent you
>
> from receiving HDTV via satellite!
>
> Are you going to let them get away with that?
>
> Did you know that since the year 2000, the National Association of
> Broadcasters (NAB) Political Action Committee has made more than $2 million
> in political contributions to candidates and members of Congress? All of
> this is meant to do one thing - deny satellite customers choice.
>
> If consumers don't speak up and tell their elected officials to resist the
> persuasion of the powerful broadcast lobby, our laws won't reflect the needs
> of television consumers.


Walter:

I watched a Consumer Electronics HD/FCC discussion on HDNET recently
from the C E Show.....

It appeared these Groups had a Strong Federal Lobby force:
TV Broadcasters
TV Cable Companies
Movie Producers

The 2 or 3 Satellite TV Companies appear to have a weak Lobby
force.







>
> As satellite television has grown to more than 20 million subscribers
> nationwide, the broadcasters, from their palatial headquarters in
> Washington, DC have stepped up their fight against legislation that benefits
> consumers all while they drag their feet in transitioning to digital
> television.
>
> Fight Back!
>
> Thanks for your previous work on this issues. Your letter and emails are
> helping. What we need now is for customers to pick up and phone and tell
> your Senator to stand up to the powerful broadcast lobby! Tell him or her
> that you are a satellite television consumer who deserves a voice in the
> laws being passed in Congress. It shouldn't be all about the broadcasters!
>
> Tell your Senator to vote YES on S.2644 the Ensign Satellite bill. This bill
> would allow satellite companies to deliver an HDTV signal to many customers
> who cannot receive one today. The first vote on this important piece of
> legislation will take place on Tuesday morning.
>
> Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121
>
> Ask to be connected to your Senator's office.
>
> Senate Commerce Committee Members
>
> Sen. John McCain, Chairman (R-AZ)
>
> Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK)
>
> Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
>
> Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
>
> Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
>
> Sen. Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-IL)
>
> Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
>
> Sen. John B. Breaux (R-LA)
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> Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
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> Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA)
>
> Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS)
>
> Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
>
> Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
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> Sen. John Sununu (R-NH)
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> Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
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> Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND)
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> Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR)
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> Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
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> Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC)
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> Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
>
> Sen. George Allen (R-VA)
>
> Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
>
> Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV)

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numeric <numeric@att.net> wrote in message news:<VD0Kc.267665$Gx4.175118@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> Walt Mather wrote:
> > Broadcasters are trying to prevent you
> >
> >
> > from receiving HDTV via satellite!
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you going to let them get away with that?
> >
> >
> >
>
> I get great digital OTA reception in both NJ and Fl. I have no need or
> desire to pay a subscription fee for broadcast HDTV via satellite.
> In-fact I think it would only encourage the low power broadcasters to
> rely on satellite rather then getting up to full authorized FCC power.
> That said though, there are some rural areas where Sen. John Ensign's
> bill may help. The standard should be severe, something like only rural
> areas that are at least 60+ miles distant, or terrain blocked from any
> digital broadcaster.


Yes, let's protect the OTA broadcasters, instead of encouraging
competition and free enterprise because you don't need the service.
Maybe we should do that with GM too, cause you drive a Chrysler.

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Walt Mather (waltinvt@lostinvt.net) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> While concerned about the "One dish" timetable, Dish Network is in support
> of the bill.

Of course Dish is concerned about the "one dish" timetable...it is finite,
which means they have to get off their butts and spend some money.

Considering that the original timetable was one year for 100% changeover
to one dish for locals within a DMA, three years is pretty good lobbying
on the part of Dish, since *only* Dish is affected by that provision...
DirecTV is already in compliance.

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Walt Mather wrote:
> "numeric" <numeric@att.net> wrote in message
> news:VD0Kc.267665$Gx4.175118@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>
>>I get great digital OTA reception in both NJ and Fl. I have no need or
>>desire to pay a subscription fee for broadcast HDTV via satellite.
>>In-fact I think it would only encourage the low power broadcasters to
>>rely on satellite rather then getting up to full authorized FCC power.
>
>
> How would loosing their viewers to a distant network possibly encourage the
> local network affilliate to rely on satellite ? It may however encourage
> them to upgrade to full power digital themselves sooner.
>
>
>>That said though, there are some rural areas where Sen. John Ensign's
>>bill may help. The standard should be severe, something like only rural
>>areas that are at least 60+ miles distant, or terrain blocked from any
>>digital broadcaster.
>
>
> Part of the bill requires the FCC to come up with a new and better way of
> determining who can receive a decent digital signal OTA. They have to do
> this within 2 years I believe.
>
>

What a concept. The FCC can do something like this?

When a multipath signal can be intermittent based on almost infinite
number of variables, time of day, make of receiver, type of antenna,
windy conditions, air traffic, time of year, kind of leaves on the
trees, road traffic, traffic in your living room, terrain, impulse noise
and on and on, you expect the FCC to do what?

The FCC would have to live in your living room and every other room for
a month just to adequately test. Is your OTA reception OK if you only
can get it with a rooftop antenna? That is the design criteria for
8-VSB. If you live in an apartment on the roof and can't put an antenna
up are you out of luck, do you get a waiver or will they pass a law
making the landlord allow it. Will that pass muster with the courts?

The BEST the FCC could do in testing our modulation, 8-VSB, before
making a decision to make it our NATIONAL STANDARD included an indoor
reception test that was not done indoors. It was performed outdoors with
a six foot antenna and a location was deemed to have GOOD reception if
within a half mile any spot could receive ONE digital signal.

Of all things impossible this has to be right on top of the list.

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Don't you realize that ONCE Michael Powell speaks upon FCC mount on
high,that all things are ordained possible? :>P