| Here's the rules for "Comment Board Trivia" (copyright 2001-2002 Kickstart Industries):
In order to ask a trivia question, you must correctly answer the previous trivia question.
When posting your answer, go ahead and include the next trivia question (for speed, try to have your question picked out before you begin).
If you answer incorrectly your question can safely be ignored and someone else gets to answer correctly (and ask a new question).
All questions must have determinable, preferably verifiable, answers (none of that "what's in my pocket" sort of thing).
Save your question! If you get the answer wrong, you can try it again next time you answer.
For clarity, start a new thread when the replies become one single column (@ the 16th reply).
If answers are not verified within half an hour, the first one will be assumed correct and that person can ask the next question (which they should have already done).
If a question is not answered within half an hour, anybody is free to post a new question to keep the game going, the unaswered question may then be reposted the next day.
In the event that the question has a different correct answer than the one assumed by the poster, proof of that shall enable either answer to be accepted: the expected answer or the newly discovered correct answer (first answer posted will win).
And that's it. Have fun!
We left off with:
Prolog:
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Many years ago, the EU developed a very sophisticated standard for digital
broadcasting. It was tested in some countries, and the only thing Europe had to
do was to even out the very small incompatibilites.
They asked U.S. companies if they wanted to jump on the train, to avoid the usual
Europe/US incompabilities and to save money, they first got positive responses, but after
a short period of time they were told that XXXX prohibited further collaboration with
the EU on the digital TV sector.
To avoid struggle, and another incompability on the tech market, the EU, consisting
of older and thus wiser states, threw their system (and the millions of Euros
it's development took) away, and waited for the U.S. to release the standard we all know now.
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The Question:
What or Who was this "XXXX", and why did it/they/whatever prohibited collaboration with the EU?
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