[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:51:41 -0500
Both the NAB and the MSTV were more concerned with then pending Campaign
Finance Reform legislation that could have included forcing public license
holders to provide free airtime to candidates than they were about ATSC's
problems.
They were being told by Zenith, Nxtwave, and others that ATSC's problems
were trivial and solvable, and were being told by Congress that rocking the
DTV boat by petitioning for a change in modulation schemes and delaying the
spectrum auction could result in candidate airtime giveaways.
As it turned out, the problems weren't so easily fixed, and we probably
would have been further ahead in the transition if the Sinclair petition
were adopted back in 1999-2000. It's sickening to see all the DVB-T
products there are available to the rest of the world, and how few ATSC
products are available to us.
It will be interesting to see the subscription rates with Crown Castle for
mobile phone TV. And to imagine that we could have been providing content
for no charge to the same DVB-H enabled phones is mind numbing.
And in the final twist of irony, it appears that with the current Abrahamoff
scandal, there is once again calls for public funding of campaigns, which
will in all likelihood include OTA television stations giving away spots to
qualified candidates. So it may well be that the NAB and MSTV get stuck
with 1) a crippled digital television standard that will never perform as
well as the rest of the world, 2) delays in turning off NTSC, and 3) giving
away political spots for free.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Ostroff" <nostroff@xxxxxxxxxx>
>I know that we did have support and I personally appreciated it.
> However, the cards were stacked against us because the NAB and it's
> kissing cousin the MSTV seemed to be the captive of inside the beltway
> Washington interests. At the time it was hard to believe but now, given
> the big buck moves by NEXTELL and Qualcom and others it seems more
> plausable.
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