Hold that line.(Brief Article)

With a reported 16 station groups now signed on to Sinclair's petition asking the FCC to throw another DTV transmission standard into the mix (and a handful said to be supporting it unofficially), the conversion to digital TV is at a critical junction, in danger of being derailed or at least seriously impeded. From our point of view, only three votes stand between the future of DTV and chaos.

Since digital TV will not be in anything like a critical mass of homes for at least another five years, the key question is: Can the perceived multipath interference issues be fixed within the current standard? If so, then the complaints by Sinclair and others is so much wasted …