[opendtv] Re: DTV DVB boxes in Australia
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:22:56 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> Yes, Bert, I read all about this chip the first time it
> was posted on this list.
>
> Your statement that each and every one of those Australian
> boxes could be produced in ATSC livery shows your own lack
> of education. Can a box be designed to do both? With
> this one chip, maybe. Is "every single Aussie DVB-T STB"
> designed with this chip? Hell, no.
But it can be, with this or any other similar chipset. We have been
talking about this for years on this list. I can't help it if you and
Bob M. choose to close your ears. We talked about this long before ST
and ATI began production of these specific chipsets (I think it was ATI
with a similar multistandard solution). When I first read that piece
from STMicroelectronics, and posted it, it wasn't to say "gee, who
knew?" It was to say "now do you doubting Thomases finally believe
this?"
This stuff is not rocket science. Once you have adopted MPEG-2 TS as
your Link Layer, and both DVB-T and ATSC have, doing what you think is
so earthshaking becomes no more difficult than what the PC industry has
done from day 1. Just how hard is it to install MS Word and WordPerfect
on any given PC? Would a PC vendor be incredibly handicapped having to
arrange such a box? I don't think so.
Offering multi-standard solution for existing DTT standards is simpler
than offering NSTC/PAL/SECAM solutions, and even THOSE exist.
If CE vendors don't do this, it's not because they can't. It's simply
because they choose not to. Either because they are pressured not to, by
some dark force(s), or because the various pessimists out there,
including certain contributors to this list, keep trying to convinve
them that there's "no market" for DTT in the US.
You guys are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The obstacles are not
technical.
Bert
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