[opendtv] Re: Technology years
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:00:01 -0500
Dale Kelly wrote:
> However, the one aspect of this long discussion, which I
> simply can not comprehend, is the notion that the eight
> years lost awaiting the development of workable VSB
> receivers is of little consequence to the OTA industry.
I agree. Eight wasted years. COFDM would not have changed that.
We can both agree that there are politico-economic forces out there that
don't want good DTT in the US. They successfully delayed introduction of
*good* low-cost 8-VSB receivers for at least 3 1/4 years, essentially
blocked availability of ATSC recording devices completely, and are still
keeping inventory of the first ever 5th gen STB low in stores.
These guys want to stall DTT in the US. Why on earth would those guys
have allowed COFDM? The US consumer is easily swayed to umbillical
media, and these guys know it, and they exploit that fact.
If you think I'm an 8-VSB zealot, then you'll assume I'm saying things I
do not intend. If any kind of zealot, I'm an OTA zealot. Lame excuses
for US OTA TV not thriving just p*ss me off. Onr of them is the
modulation choice. A lame excuse.
Take a look at this for an alternative reality in Europe.
http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=2181
No one there is running scared about what ads the cable companies might
threaten to pull.
If you can read this far down, it is actions such as LG's of three +
years ago that convinced me the problem was not product development
anymore.
Bert
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