[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:42:56 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Well, if most stations are not not still at low power then that leaves
> only the 2nd half of the CEA's reason for no OTA STB's. That is, there
> is only 11% (any x% low number) of TV's using OTA anyway and thus the
> CEA members have little interest in bothering with it.
>
> It is not easy to argue with that one. And there is also no particular
> reason to believe it will get any better in the future. However 11% of
> all TV's still makes a fairly large number, too large to be sneezed at.
11% of 102 million television households is still 11 million TVHH. In all
of Australia there are about 12 million TVHH. Not OTA only households,
total TVHHs.
Why can Australia have over 86 different models of HD and SD STBs from 26
manufacturers <http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=18> in such a
small market? Because boxes designed for Europe can easily and cheaply be
adapted to 7 MHz channels. If Australia had an entirely unique modulation
and transport stream method, chances are they would not have nearly the
number of choices that they do now.
> Moving on to conspiracy theories, it would also be interesting to know
> if any pressure is being brought on the CE companies by cable or
> satellite to stay out of the OTA STB market.
No such pressure is required. As long as CE maker's manufacturing capacity
is being filled with DBS boxes, Digital Cable boxes, and European/Oceania
DVB-T boxes, why even bother making ATSC STBs with still unproven
technology, high return rates, and low shelf life?
> For that matter, are cheap OTA STB's available in the Korean market?
Where do you think most of our STBs have been coming from? Where do you
think the companies that Bob Miller has been working with trying to get a
prototype that worked as well as the LG 'cold fusion' STB?
John
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