[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:07:11 -0500
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> Or someone. It would be indeed. What about lawmakers? How can they be so
> blatantly unfair as to contemplate such an anti-competitive measure as
> the 8 Watt limit on OTA STBs only? Surely, you don't have to be a TV
> gadget freak to understand that STBs are STBs, when it comes to needing
> power, and that if one of them is strictly limited, the others should be
> as well?
I think I've suggested before this would be an interesting money trail
to follow. Who sponsored that particular legislation and who was
financing them? But I've been too lazy to do it. Oh, well.
- Tom
> Tom Barry wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> The number, even if as low as 15 percent, is still enough to "bother
> with." After all, DBS was at that level for quite some time, and no one
> claimed it was unnecessary.
>
> Besides which, the actual number of OTA users of channels that are
> offered OTA seems to come back in the 30-something percent in survey
> after survey. Some are OTA households, some are OTA sets in otherwise
> umbillically connected households.
>
> And also, I still think that the Accurian experience -- all the STBs
> selling out fast after the price was brought to under $100, the guy
> standing in line in front of me asking about them, the apparent large
> demand for them still -- says that it would not take any marketing
> genius to move these DTT products briskly. Just a decent price and
> decent performance. The same experience, incidentally, that they had in
> Berlin, where OTA usage was about half what it is here.
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Or someone. It would be indeed. What about lawmakers? How can they be so
> blatantly unfair as to contemplate such an anti-competitive measure as
> the 8 Watt limit on OTA STBs only? Surely, you don't have to be a TV
> gadget freak to understand that STBs are STBs, when it comes to needing
> power, and that if one of them is stictly limited, the others should be
> as well? Never mind the power required by the rest of the A/V chain? Why
> should it take a deliberate lobbying effort to explain the obvious to
> these guys? Or do they know, but are made to pretend they don't get it?
>
> Bert
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
>
> - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at
> FreeLists.org
>
> - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word
> unsubscribe in the subject line.
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at
FreeLists.org
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word
unsubscribe in the subject line.
Other related posts: