<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Craig G. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Its not just a labeling issue, the FCC also has some nice language in there to potentially fine anyone who manufactures for sale in the U.S. a "TV Receiver" which doesn't include a digital tuner.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div>"By Law, as of March 1, 2007, all television receivers shipped in interstate commerce or imported into the United States must contain a digital tuner."</div><div> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Which is fairly short cited, as they don't seem to really define what a "television receiver" is. I assume it was aimed at set top boxes and televisions, but the fact that it keeps someone from manufacturing a product for a specific market (such as analog cable tv use) without putting a ATSC tuner in it.</font></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>While stupid there is precedent. You can't sell a TV set that won't tune UHF since a long time ago. Then they passed the rule that said a UHF channel had to be as easy to tune as a VHF one (thus eliminating the continuously-variable UHF tuners, it had to go "click click").</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You also can't sell a set over 13" in size that doesn't have a CC decoder.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Then there's the whole v-chip or whatever they call the parental control thing these days.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>beww</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>