[opendtv] Re: Smartphones encourage mobile user churn
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:13:01 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> I thought that Dish Network was DVB-S2 compliant?
I think you're right. Or at least, that was stated on here some time ago. And
DirecTV is similar but not the same.
It does not take any stroke of genius to build a box that can support
integrally ATSC, cable, and DBS standards. But there's no one to enforce such a
solution. So, anyone trying to build such boxes will only cause the provider
networks to stick a wrench in the works, to restore what they perceive as the
natural world order.
Most consumers, and even the pundits, are content to the point of hostility,
should anyone threaten the status quo. (Witness how the FCC was so often made
out to be the bad guy when the Powell FCC tried to get a voluntary
provider-agnostic TV standard going. Even by the pundits, even by the CEA.
Amazing cluelessness.)
BTW, the CEO of Verizon again downplayed any imminent iPhone option. They're
focusing on Droid for now.
http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/23/no-verizon-iphone-yet-plenty-us-lte-activity.htm
Bert
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