Broadcast TV Never Converted Its Digital Dream
Washington Post, June 10, 2009
By Paul Farhi
It was going to be glorious, positively Jetsonian. With digital broadcasting, the television industry once promised, the TV set would be transformed into a miraculous info-appliance, the modern household's electronic brain. Well, the future officially arrives this week, and it's not exactly as advertised.
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