[opendtv] Re: --FCC OKs WiFi between TV channels
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:29:03 -0400
Dale and Skip,
In order to stick with the position that DTT and ATSC are
and will continue to be inconsequential, one must continue
to preach that no one with HD reception and display
capabilities has any interest in watching the HD content
available OTA, from the major networks. This belief is a
prerequisite.
The fact that DirecTV integrates the DTT channels into its
system now for network HD content doesn't matter, because
no HD customer worth his salt would ever care to watch
network fare, HD or otherwise, and certainly wouldn't dare
own up to it. Don't you know. So ATSC continues not to
matter.
Bert
Skip Pizzi wrote:
> Dale is correct. At least for now, DBS provides only the NTSC channels
> for its local-into-local services. The only exception I'm
> familiar with
> is that DirecTV carries the CBS-E and CBS-W feeds in HD, and
> if you are
> market where the CBS station is an O&O, you can receive the
> national HD
> feed (E or W, as appropriate for your location). (Not sure, but Dish
> probably has the same deal.)
>
> AFAIK, all HD STBs for DBS include an ATSC tuner, and most (all?)
> integrate the two tuners' into a single EPG. This is not hard for the
> STBs to do, because I believe they receive all EPG data -- including
> that for the local DTV channels -- from the sat provider, not
> from PSIP.
>
> Note also that the new HD PVR from DirecTV/TiVo includes not one but
> *two* ATSC tuners (along with two sat tuners), so all PVR
> functionality
> is the same for both sat and local channels. (The original design had
> two sat tuners but only one ATSC tuner, and DirecTV elected
> to miss the
> Xmas 2003 retail window to retool the unit with a second ATSC
> tuner. It
> started shipping last month, with a price tag of around $1k.)
>
> Finally, my $.02 on the reason why some consumers might
> ignore the ATSC
> feature: 1) The sat channels are always there (except for brief
> rain-fade outages), while the terrestrial channels might come and go
> depending on your location and other variables (that
> certainly has been
> my experience, anyway); 2) The HD sat channels are ALWAYS running HD
> content (ESPN-HD is the one exception, and it's soon going to be
> "mostly" HD), while the terrestrial channels still run more SD than HD
> content. (The latter is also changing for the better as time goes on,
> but still a long ways from all-HD-all-the-time, or even
> -most-of-the-time).
>
> --SP
>=20
> Skip Pizzi=3D20
> Manager, Technical Policy
> Windows Client Strategic Relations
> Microsoft Corp.
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