ATSC 3.0 - Oh boy

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by NowhereMan 1966

Yeah, me too. There are times I wish we'd put more money into things like cancer research instead of ATSC 3.0, but I'm getting close to that line we should never cross. I guess I'm just blowing off steam, I lost my mother to cancer last week.

Back on topic, I don't care if I see a program in 405 line British or ASTC Hi-Def telelvisiomn, the content and story are the most important to me.

What really gets to me is that the drug companies spend several times what is spent on new drug research for TV ads for "ED medication" (Viagra, Cialis, etc). That and the fact that in Canada the EXACT same meds they sell here go for tiny fractions of the price they sell for here (and they are still making a decent profit in Canada)....The Pharmaceutical companies are basically raping us....

If some politicians who wrote a law(/tax) that is beginning to royally mess up health insurance weren't in the pocket of the pharmaceuticals that law might have actually had ONE good aspect to it...I wonder how lobbing (bribery) expenditures of the pharmaceuticals compares to research spending?....

The FCC is similarly screwed up. Instead of regulating the airwaves to prevent signal conflicts, preventing broadcast standards changes that obsolete equipment currently in use, etc like they did when they were run by engineering minded folks, it is instead all about the money they can get from the cellphone, etc companies by selling bandwidth, and which political buts they can kiss.