[opendtv] Re: Freeview tops poll of TV innovations
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:58:14 -0400
No one has offered the US consumer the UK option. If they did the
story would be exactly the same here. Incredible business opportunity.
Only waiting for someone with the where with all to make it happen.
Qualcomm has the spectrum on the East and West cost with 56 and the
entire country with 55. They could do it but will have to fail at what
they are doing first.
I am still fighting but against very long odds.
Bob Miller
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Miller wrote:
>
>> Better reception, more content including quite a few
>> digital radio channels and a better picture, that would
>> be enough for me to call it the biggest TV innovation in
>> the last decade. How about the last 60 years.
>
> You mean, exactly the sort of changes that were introduced here by
> cable, in the late '70s and early '80s, only a little less so? More
> choice, better picture that available OTA, and even FM radio in many or
> most cases.
>
> Obviously, it's free with Freeview. Then again, people don't mind paying
> over here. Evidently.
>
> But this is not a different way of consuming TV. It's very much of a
> "more of the same," as far as I'm concerned.
>
>> More interesting to me is that 16.1 million out of 24.6
>> million UK households, 65% had at least one OTA DTV
>> receiver as of the end of March. Could that be 68% today?
>> And 9.6 million UK homes are DTTV OTA ONLY, that's 39%.
>
> I could understand the enthusiasm if it came from someone who has been
> relying on OTA TV all along. But I can't understand your enthusiasm. I
> mean, I'd love that to be the case here, but most people have gone way
> beyond what you're raving about, Bob. They get that and more, with
> cable. VOD, broadband access, cable-specific PVRs. So what's the deal?
>
> Bert
>
>
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