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From: 3ksnn64@pur-ee.UUCP (Joe Cychosz)
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Subject: Re: "Compatible" HDTV
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Date: 19 Mar 90 17:16:17 GMT
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In article <Ma1D=8600io81=bFFx@andrew.cmu.edu> ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marvin Sirbu) writes:
>> I heard that the FCC said they wouldn't approve the standard unless its
>> backwards compatible...=-(
 
 
>Option 2 has the additional virtue that after a few decades when no one
>has NTSC sets any more, the stations can stop broadcasting in NTSC
>altogether, and reuse the spectrum for some other purpose (more HDTV
>programs, land mobile radio, etc.)

How did the FCC handle the conversion of the FM band from around 40Mhz
to its present location around 100Mhz?