The coming shift to digital from analog TV doesn't need to be an anti-environmental boondoggle for the consumer-electronics industry.
The Federal Communications Commission is changing our national television transmission next year from an analog signal to a digital one, saying the move will free up airwaves for police and fire transmissions.
The home-entertainment industry, meanwhile, is creating a lot of ballyhoo around the transition to hawk new products and services.
The Consumer Electronics Association released a consumer survey back in December, showing that 50% of U.S. households now own a digital television. The association self-servingly predicts that 32 million more digital TVs will ship this year and estimates that 79% of those will be high-definition. A slowing economy, of course, could quickly take the rosy tinge off of those very optimistic statistics. ...
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