<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:14 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: 'Bitstream Vera Sans'; 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>Hauppauge has a point. In that document, they say they are not selling an analog viewing device. They are selling a computer component that enables analog capture, so it should be illegal to sell a computer for viewing TV that does not include a digital tuner but should not be illegal to add analog tuning to a computer. Obviously the law is trying to do everything they can to rid the country of analog but can't come right out and say that so there are loop-holes in the laws. I hope Hauppauge fights it more.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>