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Here's the type of operation high-end audio needs to succeed.

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on March 1, 2007 at 09:26:17

From the HDTV Magazine website:

Coalition Pledges to Alert Consumers About Transition

by Dale Cripps

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The process of educating the public about the shut off of analog television in 2009 has begun in earnest. All analog TV broadcasting from terrestrial towers will come to an abrupt and permanent end on February 17, 2009. At the same time each broadcaster is federally mandated to deliver at least the equivalent digital signal as a replacement for the shut off analog. As you will see from the press release below there are upward of 20 million people who remain entirely dependent upon over-the-air analog television signals. Few of those dependants know anything about the transition. The goal of the coalition is to educate every one who is wholly or partially dependent and insure that they have the physical apparatus needed to receive and decode digital signals-something congress has provisioned for in the form of a converter box subsidy costing one and one half billion dollars...

Once again the familiar name of Richard E. Wiley has appeared in a key leadership role. At no cost to government or public Dick shepherded the HDTV standards setting process. After nine arduous years of pro bono work (1987 to 1996) he gave to us the ATSC terrestrial HDTV transmission standard, without which HDTV would not have been launched in this or any other country (besides Japan). Wiley has demonstrated an extraordinary, if not entirely uncanny, talent for leadership throughout his illustrious career. Most every post filled by him has been that of Chairman (including a stint as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission). It is hard to imagine any other with more prestige, related experience, political capital, and personal appeal for leading the public to digital television than you have with Dick Wiley. Such attributes will be critically important when calling upon the voluntary assistance of all the "educators" that will be needed from all walks of life...

A call from Dick has always mobilized forces and set armies marching. Being from the law profession Wiley is a neutral and benevolent business force that can cross all boundaries without raising competitive reactions. While Dick may be reluctant to embrace a new post for such a challenging work (he also leads the law firm of Wiley Rein LLC in Washington DC in his "spare" time) by his own admission he has been himself led by a passion for establishing HDTV. The patriotic component embedded in the transition (Homeland Security gets 25% of the analog frequencies being returned to the FCC for reassignment) will likely prove irresistible to him and to those whom he must call upon. It's a great day when one can do what they love and it is even richer when there is a sense of national duty being also realized.

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Comment: I would disagree only with this part: "Being from the law profession Wiley is a neutral and benevolent business force."

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