[opendtv] Re: PBS National Datacast
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:37:25 -0500
Bob Miller wrote:
> My point is that a major company is willing to start
> a venture that has a drop dead date and is no where
> near state of the art. They would not be doing this
> if DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T or any other digital
> modulation were allowed on this spectrum.
Plain and simple, you could be wrong. For the time being, Moviebeam is
taking the known path, sticking with Dotcast. Dotcast might have made it
fincially attractive to do so, we don't know. Or Moviebeam is happily
anticipating a quick turn-around of boxes, to soak its customers some.
Or this might be another one of those covert efforts to undermine DTT in
the US of A.
> If any of these modulations were available Disney
> would have a choice of companies to use to deliver
> their content.
Disney should already have that choice now. If they don't have that
choice now, you should be asking why not? And since good ATSC solutions
have been demoed, but are not being offered except in integrated TVs,
why?
Let's posit a conspiracy of cable/DBS companies. Surely, they would not
let COFDM products in either, right? Any datacasting should be done only
through their own media.
Let's posit a conspiracy of broadcasters, to retain their cable
must-carry. Surely they wouldn't let COFDM in either. Any supposedly
better DTT technology would surely be verbotten.
You claim that COFDM would open the floodgates. If that were true, my
only conclusion would be that the logjam is caused by ... DVB? Hmmm.
There's a conspiracy theory for you.
Bert
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