[opendtv] Re: DTV deja vu all over again: A visit via Dr Who's Tardis...
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:59:41 -0500
Bob Miller wrote:
> If you mean delays for Qualcomm or Crown Castle I think your wrong.
> Qualcomm paid for their spectrum with "funny money" that they won in
> court against the FCC and Crown Castle being one of the biggest owners
> of tower real estate in the US probably has a decent knowledge of FCC
> regulatory miasma.
>
> And I think you can expect lots of reception demonstrations from these
> entities and comparisons to other reception experiences.
I certainly hope you are correct. But, given the history of all this, I
would not be surprised to see at least one more delay for some
outrageous sounding reasons.
In any event I'm looking forward to those (eventual) demos.
- Tom
> Tom Barry wrote:
>
>
>>dermot nolan wrote:
>>
>>>It seems to me that nothing much has changed in the US or Brazil
>>
>>since 2000. In the US OTA DTV is effectively commercially crippled by
>>8VSB's shortcomings, the business model, the lack of a compelling
>>differentiated or low cost content proposition, the resounding silence
>>of broadcasters, and complete avoidance by STB vendors of ATSC. The one
>>thing which will upset the apple cart is that the DVB-H and MediaFLO
>>MDTV services will be launched later this year: that will put the
>>receivability cat firmly amongst the pigeons in urban USA. And how!
>>
>>Except that in an environment politically hostile to DVB there can
>>probably be infinitely more regulatory delays.
>>
>>- Tom
>>
>>
>
>
> If you mean delays for Qualcomm or Crown Castle I think your wrong.
> Qualcomm paid for their spectrum with "funny money" that they won in
> court against the FCC and Crown Castle being one of the biggest owners
> of tower real estate in the US probably has a decent knowledge of FCC
> regulatory miasma.
>
> And I think you can expect lots of reception demonstrations from these
> entities and comparisons to other reception experiences. After all
> mobile cellular DTV will be amazing because of how easily it will be
> received even where your cell phone doesn't work. Expect that feature to
> be prominent in their advertising, at least Qualcomm's.
>
> And I think that the FCC has shown openness to new kids on the block
> like Sirius and XMRadio as accomplishments of the FCC's. And at the
> expense of free OTA radio BTW. It will be the same for these two new
> ventures.
>
> The interesting thing is how they square that with their lack of
> interest in OTA TV/DTV exemplified by their choice of 8-VSB and more
> recently the "white space" controversy. You could argue that the FCC
> favors new ideas for subscription services over free Radio and TV
> ventures of the past.
>
> The question is what do they do about it in early 2009 when Qualcomm and
> Crown Castle will be in the public eye along with super successful
> Sirius and XMRadio all with better reception than OTA DTV. I expect that
> maybe broadcasters will arouse from their sleep and take advantage of
> the potential public outcry that analog turn off will create especially
> in the cities and demand a complete review of the transition, and
> further delay.
>
> Which would prove Disney prescient.
>
> Bob Miller
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>I read the digests on opendtv with wry amusement.
>>>
>>>It seems to me that nothing much has changed in the US or Brazil since 2000.
>>>In the US OTA DTV is effectively commercially crippled by 8VSB's
>>>shortcomings, the business model, the lack of a compelling differentiated or
>>>low cost content proposition, the resounding silence of broadcasters, and
>>>complete avoidance by STB vendors of ATSC. The one thing which will upset
>>>the apple cart is that the DVB-H and MediaFLO MDTV services will be launched
>>>later this year: that will put the receivability cat firmly amongst the
>>>pigeons in urban USA. And how!
>>>
>>>Meantime Brazil continues the six year long l'amour fou with ISDB-T, no
>>>doubt helped by a putative $2 billion campaign sweetener from the DIBEG
>>>people anxious to get ***ANY OTHER COUNTRY THAN JAPAN **** to adopt ISDB-T.
>>>There must however be a real concern that this could turn out to be the
>>>DTV-M for Brazil effectively backfiring as an industrial policy in precisely
>>>the same way that NTSC System M did. A case of DTV deja vu all over again.
>>>
>>>It is interesting to note that DTV has really only been a success in the
>>>countries which adopted DVB-T. Now why would that be he said innocently as
>>>he stepped back into Dr Who's Tardis borrowed for this visit to opendtv.
>>>
>>>Kind Regards,
>>>
>>>Dermot Nolan
>>>
>>>
>
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