First more than two-thirds of Americans get their TV signals via cable. If that weren't enough, customers who buy digital TV sets, now are getting only slightly better picture because the cable box can't communicate with the set. On top of that sundae of issues add the sprinkles and cherries of unanswered questions about labeling devices telling consumers whether their digital set connects to other digital appliances, such as VCRs and copy protection technologies. The FCC is expected on Thursday to begin devising rules on those matters if the industries can't work it out themselves. The conversion to digital for the television industry is creating a whole new perspective for television.
Viewers vote to kick some of the contestants out until just one winner remains.
People are missing the real life in their lives, so they want a substitute life. The Supreme Court has announced that it will make its decisions available online hours after their 10am release through a link to a site run by the Government Printing Office. A NYTimes op-ed urging the Supreme Court to open its proceedings to TV cameras. For a while yesterday morning, The Wall Street Journal's Web site knew something that no one else did. Microsoft might be forced by the Justice Department to make the source code for Internet Explorer available to customers and rivals.