I wonder how much influence content providers will have on these standards agreed upon. As I understand it the FCC still has to approve the compromise so I suppose we still could run into delays. When I first read this I feared this would render any HDTV purchases (Jan for me I hope) obsolete but as I read it more thoroughly that seems not to be the case.

On a side note it might just be me but reading "even though it is legal to do xxx" instead of "even though it is legal to do x" places a whole different slant on the statement.