[opendtv] Re: How important are new Codecs wrt OTA Broadcasting?
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:08:10 -0500
LG only promised $50 decoders if ordered in the millions from one
source. That means one boat load for delivery on the Potomac. NO
reliability testing, no distribution, no marketing just the receivers.
It would then cost Congress $1000 a unit to distribute via Haliburton.
That is of course before the after sales cost of $2000 per unit when it
is discovered that they have to install a 30 ft antenna. Then we have
Denver times a million in cities like New York where such receive
antennas will be very hard to install.
I can see armored Haliburton HMMWVs all over NYC trying to survive very
angry NON early adopters who just want some TV.
"Stations" don't want to support an OTA system that will steal customers
from their cable buddies who pay them per sub.
OTA fixed isn't dead if it is part of a viable fixed, portable and
mobile system that cost less than the cable and satellite alternatives.
OTA would be more than alive, it would kick ***.
Bob Miller
William Smith wrote:
>Bert,
>
>IMHO The modulation standard is strangling the business model.
>
>LG claims to have the secret to 8-VSB (they should they own it) but
>refuses to make the solution available (except to be waved around in
>Congressional Hearings). LG committed to building the magic $50 decoders
>If Congress would set a hard date.. The date has been set .. Where are
>the units? Anyone else who grandstanded like that would be held in
>contempt of Congress.
>
>Fixed, mobile and portable are the future... fixed only is dead..
>
>Stations do not want to promote a system that doesn't support reliable
>reception.. The first impression Joe Six Pack has of DTV reception will
>be the one that sticks with him...not the one after he fights the
>antenna for an hour...
>
>My opinions only...
>
>William
>
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