I know its not HD but the UK and a great deal of Europe have already gone the cheap digital broadcast TV route and are doing serious HD work.
Whereas in the US the sluglike FCC, with all of its inherent vested interests, is the very best example of why government should stay out of attempting to legislate progress.

As I understand it the reason we ended with the fairly crappy digital terestial tv that we have is due to goverment meddling. I'm fairly sure that OnDigital were forced to use the platform that they used because the government told them they had to. Too late at night to go digging for the details though.

I always fall for things like this and have to ask the question anyway. Why does it say (Love Terry Jacks)??

My "punishment" from Tony for quoting the entire lyrics to Seasons in the Sun in a thread that strayed onto dangerous ground ;-)