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I'm trying to think of other things that could drive up cost in chosing a broadcast TV standard. I don't think it would be processing power at least ont he reciever if it works on cell phones.

It's too bad that we didn't just come up with a standard of broadcasting over IP, and essentially have standardized file or stream formats, and then convert digital TV to large network broadcast media. Then our TVs would essentially be reciving a digital file and displaying it, and it wouldn't matter if it was getting it over the air or over an RF cable, or over some other IP network.

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Each station will get an extra 6 MHz chunk to broadcast digital TV. They have to use that entire 6 MHz or forfeit it completely. São Paulo, Rio, and Brasilia will start by then end of 2007. Then other state capitols, then smaller cities, then repeaters until July 2016 when the government takes analog back. ]]>Jun 30th 2006 8:29PM