Harshness,
I personly don't like NAB, that restrict our free flow of informations, and I think spot beam can get better IMHO.
Any spot beams is spilling over like here in Albuquerque TV market, if the signal strenth is strong enough or sometime 2 or 3 TV markets can share the spotbeam with it, and besides the reality nowdays so they can be done don't to need to changes anything with the spotbeams if when the the new bill passed.
And I think most of TV viewers are getting tired of big boy NAB saying what we can or can't watch next door TV market by watching local news from other citys and back up programings in case our local Albuquerque station don't carry the network shows for some reasons.
Want to get DVR? No thanks don't need one more box just use good old DBS or cable box recevier.
TV broadcasters will have to live in brave new world, just like AM radio did survive the TV and FM was added at that time.
8-12-07
I agree entirerly,
The NAB needs to be adressed and change some of their long time outdated rules.
This is just another thing that Cable gets that DBS doesn't do to unfair rules and regulations.
I also think it's time to look into the cable R &R and open up the same oppertunities for DBS, Sat is no longer a possibility for most people they are established and need to have fair regulations, I could understand these differences when DBS was just starting out, but that is no longer the case.
Jimbo