"...It's hard to believe, but one issue is whether the broadcasters should be able to make their picture quality more fuzzy as a means of limiting the distribution of programming, say over the Internet. The technical term is "down-resolution," or "down-rezzing."
Deliberately making the picture look bad. If I do buy an HDTV wide screen TV I want a sharp clean/clear image while watching an HD broadcast. I'm not going to steal programming for resale.
"The FCC proposed the PDNE (Personal Digital Network Environment) as the solution - a boundary, within which consumers could shift their digital content. The agency suggested that the PDNE could be thought of as a zone, "within which consumers could freely redistribute digital broadcast television content." The problem is that there really is no way that such a zone could be defined, and it would be silly, as well as wrong, to try to do so."
Just a frivolous waste of time and money...our money. There are other issues which the FCC could better spend their time on.
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