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Re: Digital Television
There are a number of commentators and researchers who already agree
that digital television makes considerable sense. The argument that the
U.S. should pursue it as a national goal is interesting, but flawed for
two major reasons:
-The current administration has made abundantly clear that there is no
coherent industrial policy. It is anathema to the ideology of the
unseen hand;
-Perhaps even more important is that the managers of this nation's
relevant industries abandoned the domestic production of consumer
electronics virtually completely, which means that whichever HDTV
standard is agreed upon, the Japanese, Taiwanese, French (General
Electric/Thompson) and Dutch (Philips/Magnavox) manufacturers will
be delighted to manufacture appropriate technology for the U.S.
-Henry Breitrose
Dept. of Communication
Stanford
(All of the above my opinion, and certainly not Stanford's)
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