[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 15:16:07 -0500
Tom Barry wrote:
>Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>>
>>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?
>
>Because broadcasters do not sell CE products. CE
>companies do.
Tom, do you really think that cable and DBS companies would be equally
uninterested and uninvolved in the existence, or lack thereof, of interface
boxes to their media? Or telephone companies?
Do you really think that auto companies would think of marketing an
automobile without knowing if the tire companies had adequate tires for it?
Just sort of leave that up to chance? Hey, we aren't tire companies, we
can't be held responsible for that minor detail?
Since we indulge in conspiracy theories so readily on here, why isn't the
reason much more likely to be what Craig has often advocated? That it is to
the advantage of the broadcasters that OTA work poorly, so they are
"guaranteed" access to umbillical media. And that their OTA plants are only
there to meet a bureaucratic requirement for the rights to the other media?
So let's not push for the corrected products to reach consumers. Let the
ancient designs, expensive and inferior in performance, persist, so we can
used our same old tired song from 1999 to get access to the other media.
I can't begin to understand why last weekend, in late January of 2006, the
best box I could buy in any store was a design that is more primitive than
what the CRC tested, and submitted in a report, on 4 April 2002. This is a
completely preposterous, and frustrating, state of affairs.
For that matter, I also can't understand why the majority of stations can't
go to the tiny effort it must take to keep their DTT clocks half-way on
time. I don't even mean within seconds, but is a couple of minutes, at
least, asking too much? Is this evidence of "who the heck cares," or what?
>And the CE companies obviously do not believe those
>ATSC products exist that can be profitably sold at this time.
I laughed out loud today when, in a radio newscast, I heard that some people
were going to be "forced" to watch the Superbowl in SD. Know why? Because
many cable companies don't carry ABC in HD. Imagine that. Hey, how many
spots have we seen where ABC explains to the viewers how to get access to
their OTA HD feed? Must be that cable is the only way to get ABC, or for
sure we would have heard otherwise, right?
>They may exist on paper or on one-off demos
They exist on more than paper. Yet, we keep hearing a retelling of events
from 1999, as if in the interim, nothing had happened. The excuse given for
my having to buy a CE product some three to four years obsolete is that
seven years ago, some comparison test looked bad for ATSC. How illuminating.
How many times have we heard broadcasters referring, in passing, to the "30
foot mast requirement" for ATSC reception, as if that were fact? Even with
my obsolete STBs it's not fact. But hey, why not make a bad situation even
worse?
Bert
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