Dirty tricks to push HD TV!

[andy]

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[ppppenguin]

Originally Posted by andy

ATSC actually beat freeview by several years. The first ATSC broadcast was in 1998, and I assume receivers started to become available in 99. Freeview didn't go on the air until 2002.

Freeview was a continuation of ITV digital which in turn was previously called ONdigital whcih started in 1998. Until recently the original ONdigital boxes would still receive Freeview though compatibility has worsened as more MHEG data was added and more services were moved from 2K to 8K carriers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONdigital

[Robert Grant]

Originally Posted by andy

ATSC actually beat freeview by several years. The first ATSC broadcast was in 1998, and I assume receivers started to become available in 99. Freeview didn't go on the air until 2002.

With a few notable exceptions, Practical ATSC receivers only became available to the US public around 2005. Large screen HD displays were "HD ready monitors" with HD component inputs and either an NTSC tuner or no tuner at all. If someone asked a TV salesman about buying an HDTV tuner, he/she would be told that HD TV was not going to be over-the-air (despite the fact there may have been HD ATSC broadcasts already on the air!).