At 8:33 PM -0400 5/24/04, John Shutt wrote: >I also find it very curious that in Great Britain, you find Freeview boxes >manufactured by over a dozen manufacturers everywhere electronics are sold, >yet here in the United States you have to really search for one or two >brands at the huge nationwide retail electronics chains. > >Either the manufacturers are waiting for the next generation of receiver >chips and the next iteration of ATSC standards before flooding the market >with STBs, or else the fast approaching tuner mandates have made it economic >suicide to even try to design new STBs. > Or the vendors expect people to buy monitors and STBs that are optimized for the service to which they subscribe. You can still build a cable or DBS STB without an ATSC tuner. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.