Posted by Goro on 01/10/49 11:34

David Levy wrote:
> Jeff Rife wrote:
>
> > > Is it "cool" to spend money on a tuner that will never be used?
>
> > No, and you have the same problem with speakers on TVs, NTSC
> > tuners on TVs, and a whole plethora of other "bundled" systems
> > (look at car manufacturers for the worst examples).
>
> Integrated analog tuners and speakers of average quality are dirt
> cheap, so it doesn't make sense to exclude them.
>
> Digital tuners will be similarly inexpensive in the not-too-distant
> future, but they aren't today.
>
>
> > The fact of the matter is that ATSC will be the standard for TV
> > in the US, and like NTSC, whether you use the tuner or not, it
> > needs to be in every TV.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if ATSC tuners were to become mandatory in all
> units with tuning capabilities, but I see no valid reason to ever
> prohibit the production of "monitors" without any tuning capabilities
> at all.

I thot that this was already that case. Do not all new HDTVs have ATSC
tuners by law?

-goro-

> As mentioned above, however, there will be a point (possibly very
> soon) at which ATSC tuners will become cheap enough that it no longer
> pays to omit them. In all fairness, ATSC tuner prices would have
> dropped more rapidly if they had been congressionally mandated to a
> greater extent.

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