[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:47:41 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> 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.
You may be right, but "as it turns out," the fix was in fact devised
several years ago, and for whatever set of reasons, it's still not
available on store shelves *in OTA-only boxes*.
Where are the 4th gen Micronas OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
Where are the 5th gen LG OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs? (They continue to
offer quite happily only 3rd gen devices or OTA.)
Where are the STMicroelectronics OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
Where are the Samsung Gemini chip OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
Where is the outrage from broadcasters that these products are being
held in some secret vault?
As to "the rest of the world," we have seen at least two obvious
examples of solutions that are global. And clearly, as long as demods
are still provided as separate chips, this will be the case for
virtually *any* DTT product out there. Offer something in DVB-T, you can
offer the same box in ATSC. So that old song just doesn't ring true
anymore.
To an outsider like me, this sounds like excuses for doing nothing. To
an outsider like me, mention of DVB-T is a smokescreen. I'm not even
saying that in many scenarios, DVB-T wouldn't be "better." It very
likely could be. I'm simply saying that we have ATSC, we have "miracle
chips" that finally work, so why aren't broadcasters at very least
pushing to get these improved products out to the public? You can keep
harping about DVB-T at the same time.
Bert
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