Consumer electronics makers are exaggerating cost of adding DTV t...
Consumer electronics makers are exaggerating cost of adding DTV tuners to analog sets, broadcasters said Mon. in joint reply comments on FCC’s DTV rulemaking (00-39). Instead of $200 per set additional cost suggested by manufacturers, broadcasters said economies of…
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scale could reduce premium to $50 per set by 2006: “Broadcasters, of course, would not advocate a requirement that would raise television set prices beyond consumers’ means.” MSTV and NAB have hired consulting firm to conduct 8-week study on effects of DTV tuner requirement, and they, along with ALTV, said FCC shouldn’t decide on DTV tuner until results were available: “There should be no question, however, that a DTV tuner requirement is necessary to promote the transition.”