If they make a bunch of 1080p inexpensive monitors with no tuners or ATSC royalties I hope they are also good computer displays.
I wonder what the royalties are if they just had a QAM cable tuner with no cable card. Are they allowed to make digital cable ready but not OTA ready TV's?
- Tom Ron Economos wrote:
I've found a chinese website that claims the ATSC royalty is $23. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-12/27/content_768603.htm Ron John Shutt wrote:Bert,You may be seriously underestimating the cost of an 8-VSB demod. The costs are not in the hardware, which would amount to a fraction of a penny if implemented as you say.The costs are in the ridiculously high royalties paid to the patent holders of both the original consortium and to the nth generation "cold fusion" chipsets and intellectual property rights owners.In the past on this list, I've heard the price of $40 just for all of the IP rights for an ATSC receiver.John---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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