2007-12-29 03:35:45 · 6 answers · asked by Nancy D 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
When technology made the television cheap and readily available, did the government force everyone to get rid of their radios and buy a television set?
It's advances in technology that are driving this particular change. The consumer wants it, the marketplace provides it.
Since analog television is on it's way out the government is reallocating the broadcast frequencies for HDTV in order to save bandwidth and frequency allocation. If they didn't do this you would have to have one set of channels for analog TV and another set of channels for HDTV. Eliminate the analog signals and save a portion of the frequency spectrum for use in other applications.
2007-12-29 04:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People aren't being forced to use Hi-Def. It's a new technology that's rapidly becoming commonplace in the average home....people are switching from analog to digital because they want to, not because they're being forced to.
The better quality of picture and sound are great reasons to switch to hi-def as opposed to staying with analog.
To say that the government is forcing people to switch to Hi Def, is like saying when the telephone was invented, the government forced people to switch from sending mail to using the telephone....which is simply not true....
2007-12-29 03:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by Adam G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Free market system.
Rather than "force" people to change, the government actually set standards to "force" the manufacturers and broadcasters to assure that the new signals would be downward compatible with the millions of televisions presently in use - the same restrictions were put on color televisions when they were introduced - the signal had to be compatible with the millions of black and white sets in use at the time.
2007-12-29 03:57:06 · answer #3 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of HD is a great technologies, however the government isn't forcing us to apply it, yet atleast. they're forcius to alter to digital cable quite of analog cable. yet forcing human beings to alter is somewhat rediculous. some human beings do in simple terms no longer choose it, like myself. i'm fortunate if I watch television as quickly as a week. and that i'm stunned that they did that. i don't comprehend why the government is worried approximately what style of television provider human beings have? they could desire to be greater centred on greater significant matters like the war, crime, and so on. no longer television. Plus there's a great style of folk who do no longer p.c. to alter, like senior voters. in many situations happening cable and antenna is what they have been familiar with for 60 something years. Why lead them to change? I certainly have digital cable. I certainly have not the slightest theory on the thank you to apply the container thoroughly without messing something up. that's genuinely rediculous
2016-10-20 06:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man i could live without it. IStill use casette tapes got my first cd player in 2005, and just got an mp3 player this past month, hate it, I still use my VHS more that DVD and HAD bETA TILL THEY STOPPED MAKING TAPES i dont need no stinking hidef
2007-12-29 04:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by John McCamnesty for Ex Senator 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lobbyists,patent holders and the big payoff to the administration.
2007-12-29 04:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by frijolero 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋