Article on DTV legislation in National Review... (Score 2, Interesting)

Found the link a few weeks ago, it's an article from the National Journal on where DTV started and how we got to the point we're at today...

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/ 2005/0218njsp.htm

Great quote:

The NAB's battle with public safety officials goes back to 1986, when the FCC was planning to allocate one-third of broadcasters' spectrum space for police, fire, and other public safety needs. Fritts and the NAB swung into action. They seized upon a new technology out of Japan called high-definition TV. Compared with the 45-year-old U.S. standard, the sharper, high-resolution images used twice as many lines on a television screen, and broadcasting a program required two television channels instead of one. For broadcasters, that was just the point: High-definition gave them a way to fend off the FCC's effort to grab frequencies back and turn them over to other uses. The broadcasters lobbied the agency to postpone the spectrum reallocation and to study the new technology.

That sounds about right...!