yeh I believe the UK has some sort of mandate currently for digital TV
channels.
I'm sure someone from there can speak to that.
We don't yet in canada, though no doubt our astewt leaders will faithfully
follow like sheep once the US has gone all digital.
Remember though, with digital TV, it makes things like DVS easier and
cheaper for the tv broadcasters to implement, as seen in the UK.
You can turn it on or off just like the closed captioning.
73
Colin, V A6BKX
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From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:35 AM
Subject: digital tv and ict90


> Hi;
> The fact that the ict90 was preprogrammed with tv audio was a nice extra.
> If I understand things correctly that will be history come next year.
> As for digital converters,  does the converter have its own remote or can
> you still use your own tv remote?
> Also, apparently most channel numbers will change.  If this is indeed the
> case it should be an interesting learning curve for some.
> Does anyone know why this is being mandated?  Is there a similar
requirement
> in other countries?
> Richard
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