Post by dkennedy on Feb 25, 2005 17:13:15 GMT -5
2/23/2005 5:00:00 PM
by Paolo Del Nibletto
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has hampered ATI's plans. The company has produced an HDTV Wonder product, for example, that allows users to receive HDTV on their desktops. The FCC has told both ATI and NVidia that they can no longer make these products. The purported reason is that they want to protect high-definition content from other devices. So ATI, though a Canadian company, is adhering to the FCC's order and will end production in July.
Now the question begs to be asked: What is the FCC protecting? Currently, ATI executives said you can get 10 channels in the U.S., including Fox, CBS and ABC. In Canada, ATI executives said they can pick up only one and that was PBS from Buffalo. If this is about protecting poor unsuspecting Canadians from annoying PBS on-air personalities begging us for money, then I am all for it.
by Paolo Del Nibletto
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has hampered ATI's plans. The company has produced an HDTV Wonder product, for example, that allows users to receive HDTV on their desktops. The FCC has told both ATI and NVidia that they can no longer make these products. The purported reason is that they want to protect high-definition content from other devices. So ATI, though a Canadian company, is adhering to the FCC's order and will end production in July.
Now the question begs to be asked: What is the FCC protecting? Currently, ATI executives said you can get 10 channels in the U.S., including Fox, CBS and ABC. In Canada, ATI executives said they can pick up only one and that was PBS from Buffalo. If this is about protecting poor unsuspecting Canadians from annoying PBS on-air personalities begging us for money, then I am all for it.
