[mythtv-users] Interesting Reading: Windows Secrets reviews AppleTV and GoogleTV

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday, December 09, 2010 11:43:11 am Ben Kamen wrote:
> On 12/9/2010 12:29 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> > You forget that digital TV was pushed in the US as the solution to
> > emergency communications problems (like what was claimed during
> > 9/11), with the balance of the freed up spectrum being auctioned
> > off to solve the government debt problems.
> 
> I did forget about the auctioning -- but I didn't know about the
> "emergency comm" thing. I'll have to go look that one up.

It was called:

Digital TV Transition & Public Safety Home 	 
NTIA Home 	Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 



Note the "Public Safety" in the name.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/dtv/