Federal regulators moved yesterday to speed the adoption of digital television by ordering manufacturers to install the technology in all mid-size TV sets by next spring. The Federal Communications
Commission voted 4 to 0 to shorten a previous deadline by four months, requiring sets ranging in size from 25 inches to 36 inches to be capable of receiving digital broadcasts by March 1. Analog TV
broadcasts are to stop by the end of 2006, as long as 85 percent of households have the capacity to receive digital transmissions.
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