CompuServe Messages

Agreed… Often times our problems lie within the area of standards… I have been reading an awful lot of the review work done by the FCC in attempting to choose a standard, something that they should do in the second half of 1993. The very fact that a government body is determining the standards is a hindrance… Let the consumer decide, let competition be the guide. Unfortunately, even if the FCC does promote a standard it may be a long time before we see HDTV. The televisions will available to us, but how many programmers and local stations are going to be willing to expend the kind of money needed to offer HDTV programming. According to FCC chairman Richard Sikes, the amount of money a station will need to spend to offer HDTV is between 10 and 15 million dollars.