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1 edit | Maybe Jeff should anti up the cash
Nevermind the capital investment would be huge with unknown returns. Considering satellite and cable are already in HDTV and that HDTV has not reached much of a market satuartion it would be tough for a company to spend the money to make it happen. Jeff doesn't have to answer to stockholders should the venture fail and the company lose their ass on the deal. Then it gets even better:
"Despite a flurry of ADSL2+ demos at last month’s Supercomm show, Starr acknowledges that the technology is in its early stages, and that the vendors still need to iron out some interoperability issues."
Combine that with:
"An upgrade to ADSL2+ is a no-brainer, especially for telcos that don’t have the money to spend on fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployments, says Michael Harris, president of Kinetic Strategies Inc., a broadband research firm."
Ummmm, does the word conflict come to mind? ADSL2 is not ready for mainstream yet go ahead deploy it!
Seriously, so a company must 1) Spend a fortune setting up a product where you get locked into one companies equipment because it doesn't talk well with others. 2) Sell HDTV which many homes do not have nor are in the market for with HDTV's being 100+ more then a regular TV and 3) Do all this with an expection to have some kinds of ROI? Wow, thats a lot for any CFO to swallow.
And its even harder with this quote:
"“Adoption of HD in the market is about four to five percent,” Motorola’s Wagoner says. The telcos “are pleased about [the prospects] of marketing HD services, but there’s no high expectation that it would lead to tens and tens and tens of thousands of subscribers.”"
Yeah! Lets spend tons of money to sell to a 5% of the population!!! 
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