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In article <1990Mar17.022845.9450@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>,
gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes:

> 
> HA!  I knew this discussion would get people going!
>   My point was not that Laser Discs are awesome.  My point IS that
> when *I* watch TV (not too often, mind you) It doesn't bother me that
> I can't get 6" from the sceen and still not see pixels:
[...]
> 
>   And what of the MILLIONS of people who won't be able to afford the
> HDTV sets?

The point of my original posting was that the FCC isn't even
giving people the chance to choose.

If new formats were allowed, the high fidelity nuts like me would 
be willing to support the HDTV industry until it became affordable 
for everyone, while leaving the old system in place until there was
no longer enough of a market to support it.

> 
> >I spent years in broadcast, and have seen many changes in the FCC, and I am
> >not too particularly impressed with their performance in the past few years.
> 
> I can't argue w/ that!  In fact, where does the FCC claim to get the 
> legal authority to regulate speach over the airwaves?  e.g. why will
> a HAM who says F**K on the airwaves almost surely lose his license?  So
> much for freedom of speach!  It's a form of government censorship.  I 
> have nothing against CENSURE, but censorship by the gov. is WRONG.

Wouldn't you consider regulating broadcast formats just as much 
censorship as regulating speech?

thant