What about the Chinese standard developed to avoid Western & Japanese patents? Build a factory in Brazil and then make wood-cabineted ATSC sets for export to eastern & southern US. Gotta think WalMart. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 2:48 PM Subject: [opendtv] More on Brazil > Some recent insight into what Brazil really wants. Aside from mobile and = > hand-held portable capability, seems to me that what Brazil really wants = > is the ability of building their own equipment so as to avoid their very = > high import tariffs. Sounds like they want some form of ownership of the = > standard. > > 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.