[opendtv] Re: ATSC STBs
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:03:03 -0500
Cliff Benham wrote:
> It sure sounds like the underlying idea is to
> prevent anyone from getting at the program material
> except with their eyes and ears.
That's just what makes this so frustrating. Why should a CE vendor care?
They should only care about selling products, in competition with the
other CE vendor.
If they either:
1. Keep a product off the market for a reason that only matters to the
broadcasters (preventing rushing through ads), or
2. Keep a product off the market to favor the umbillical services (make
it impossible, incovenient, or expensive to receive DTT),
then the only thing anyone can conclude is that there is collusion going
on. If so, where are our safeguards? Anti-trust?
That's why I laugh when people try to make the FCC the bad guy here. If
it weren't for the FCC, we wouldn't even have the integrated TVs to buy.
Heads should roll.
Bert
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