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Study Says FCC Will Set Digital TV Home Unit Change Overs --
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24th week 2005 / WASHINGTON -- The NBS100 TeleCom study
reports that U.S. regulators this week took action to
accelerate the transition to digital television by moving up
the date by which all new mid-sized TV sets must be able to
view the high-quality digital signals.
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The Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to
move up by four months, to March 1, 2006, a deadline
requiring digital reception by all television sets sold in
the United States with 25-inch to 35-inch screens.
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The Consumer Electronics Assn. had asked for the new
deadline. But it also sought to delay next month's deadline
for half of mid-sized sets sold to be digital-ready, a
request the FCC denied. July 1 is also the deadline for all
new large sets to have digital
tuners.
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The agency also proposed moving up by at least six months
the July 1, 2007, deadline by which all TVs sold with
screens measuring at least 13 inches must be capable of
receiving digital signals.
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Congress and the FCC want Americans to rapidly adopt digital
TV so the old, analog airwaves can be reclaimed and sold for
billions of dollars to commercial wireless companies and
public safety agencies. The Bush administration wants most
of the money raised in that sale to help plug the federal
budget deficit.
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"We need to push the transition to its conclusion as
expeditiously as possible," FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q.
Abernathy said at the FCC's monthly open meeting.
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In other news, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted
Stevens' (R-Alaska) aide Christine Kurth withdrew from
consideration to fill a Republican seat on the FCC. Kurth,
34, withdrew because her husband is a lobbyist in the
communications industry and either she would have to recuse
herself from numerous issues or he probably would have to
leave his job.
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