Comment Re:restrictions slow adoption (Score 1) 481
Thats total crap. The FCC has a mandate to force all TV stations to move to HDTV. They don't have a choice. FCC wants the analog spectrum back so they can sell it to wireless companies.
"However, I'll give it to them that the landscape has changed somewhat due to the Internet."
Yes it has, but the broadcast flag with make it Worse for these companies. Heres what will happen:
You get your Super duper awesome 200 inch HDTV Your like AWESOME DUDE, I can watch the Y Files in all its glory.
So you go to your HDTV/PVR electronic guide and you look up the time for the Y files. Then your Like DAM I'm not going to be home, I have that corporate whore rally to go to. So then your like WAIT!!! I can just record it an watch it later dude. So you click on the record this show button, but instead of your PVR going all set to record the Y Files. It goes YOU TOTAL MORON, DID YOU THINK WE WOULD ACTUALLY LET YOU RECORD THIS SHOW!??
Then your like WTF, man this BLOWS! Being a corporate whore SUCKS!!! So then your like F them, I'll go down load it off the Internet with all the commercials removed. (Since there will ALL WAYS be people who will get around what ever they do)
So Instead of having there little Corporate whore record the show and be a good boy and watch all the commercials (No Bathroom breaks!) they Lost a viewer of their commercials. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
"However, I'll give it to them that the landscape has changed somewhat due to the Internet."
Yes it has, but the broadcast flag with make it Worse for these companies. Heres what will happen:
You get your Super duper awesome 200 inch HDTV Your like AWESOME DUDE, I can watch the Y Files in all its glory.
So you go to your HDTV/PVR electronic guide and you look up the time for the Y files. Then your Like DAM I'm not going to be home, I have that corporate whore rally to go to. So then your like WAIT!!! I can just record it an watch it later dude. So you click on the record this show button, but instead of your PVR going all set to record the Y Files. It goes YOU TOTAL MORON, DID YOU THINK WE WOULD ACTUALLY LET YOU RECORD THIS SHOW!??
Then your like WTF, man this BLOWS! Being a corporate whore SUCKS!!! So then your like F them, I'll go down load it off the Internet with all the commercials removed. (Since there will ALL WAYS be people who will get around what ever they do)
So Instead of having there little Corporate whore record the show and be a good boy and watch all the commercials (No Bathroom breaks!) they Lost a viewer of their commercials. BRILLIANT!!!!!!!
