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Originally Posted by Carmine
Another decade of digital and analog (99-09) at the same time, yet digital just wasn't winning in the marketplace. The equivalent would have been a government decree in 1964 that all broadcasts will be in color, and non-compatible with B&W. Because they didn't, we saw manufacturers forced to make more reliable and less expensive color TVs. Broadcasters felt similar pressure to offer more colorcasts.
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There was no "marketplace" for digital to win or lose in.
Consumers were systematically denied the choice of digital tuners until (far too late) they were made mandatory.