At 7:08 PM -0400 10/9/05, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >The price is right NOW. The performance seems to >have reached an adequate level. Analog reception >seems to have been beaten, in most cases (even >if not with an antenna strictly sitting on top of >a particular TV set in NYC). And still, hardly anyone is buying ATSC STBs or using their integrated ATSC receivers with an antenna. This should be telling you something Bert. Meanwhile, the transition in Germany IS WORKING. So what is different Bert? Is it the technology? If you are correct, then ATSC is not at a disadvantage relative to COFDM, so it cannot be the technology that is causing DTV broadcasting to succeed in Europe. Is it the business model? Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.