Digital Britain was only ever intended as a framework, but all our expectations for it - and the problems we hoped it might address - were and are huge.
From delivering universal broadband access and setting the date for DAB switchover to solving the problems of regional news via any medium, few corners of the media world are untouched by the report's sketchy proposals. We will be digesting it for many weeks.
For now, let me just share a BBC thought. Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC trustees, has robustly objected to the report's proposals to use the £130m "digital dividend" - a sum awarded to the BBC via the licence fee to facilitate digital switchover by 2012, and therefore theoretically "available" from that date - to subsidise any content from a rival media owner, however pressing their problems.
He would rather give the money back to licence fee-payers. However, using it for better broadband infrastructure is acceptable on the basis that, like Freeview and Freesat, it would be a general public good and BBC content would use that network too.
Your sympathy for the BBC will depend largely on how you feel about the organisation in general. The world is divided into those who think the licence fee is an outrageous stealth tax squandered on the salaries of foul-mouthed presenters and those who believe it's a modest sum, efficiently funding the UK's most successful and influential media organisation, which provides a vast range of quality output.
The BBC's principal argument is that any use of the licence fee for non-BBC activities breaks the transparent and trusted link between payment and output.
I understand that point, but the BBC has already allowed the licence fee to become smudged and fudged, and not just when it accepted the government task and cash for digital switchover.
This is still a linear TV licence fee, yet it funds all BBC content - radio, online, events - and all platforms and distribution services, including Freeview and iPlayer.
You do have to pay the licence fee if you watch BBC One simulcasts via the web, but you don't if you only watch catch-up TV via iPlayer.
I doubt the average licence fee-payer understands that. If the BBC made the licence fee more logical and explicit, it might get a better hearing.