On January 16, 2006 at 20:55, jfetter said...
guess all is fair in love, war and business. Truth
is without that decision, we could all be watching
full-time, every channel in HD via satellite because
bandwidth wouldn't be an issue (even with only
2 or 3 satellite's in orbit). I hate cable for
many reasons but this one is my biggest, they
couldn't compete so they lobbied the FCC and ruined
the original idea of satellite and getting a feed
from anywhere, no matter the source or content.
I am no fan of cable. But your assertion that sat would be all HD is borderline ludicrous. First, there aren't that many HD channels, and the provider companies don't own the channels, so this fact has little to do with them. Second, they do not have the bandwidth for that, even if they dropped all their SD channels. That's why they (DirecTV) had to upgrade to modern sats.
