[opendtv] Re: Technology years
- From: "nat ostroff" <nostroff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:58:18 -0500
Ahhh, "stay the course" Why does that have a familier ring?
Nat Ostroff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:13 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Technology years
> On 1/19/07, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > John Shutt wrote:
> >
> > > That is the whole point, isn't it? DVB-T works with cheap
> > > tuners. DVB-T works with cheap chipsets. You can't cripple
> > > the receiver using off the shelf parts.
> >
> > No, they can't work with cheap tuners. And that's just one example of
> > how CE manufacturers could prevent COFDM hardware from being widely
> > available here.
> >
> > The simple fact is, the market could have been flooded with cheap and
> > functional ATSC devices since the Christmas season of 2003, and most
> > surely of 2004, and positively of 2005, and absolutely for sure this
> > past Christmas, and that didn't happen.
> >
> > > Pace, Nokia, and others were ready and willing to bring a
> > > 6MHz box ...
> >
> > And something or someone would reach them just as they reached LG and
> > others to prevent that from ever happening.
> >
> > It doesn't have to be a real conspiracy. For some strange reason, in the
> > commercial world, as opposed to working on govt contracts, receiving
> > kickbacks is not a criminal offense for which people get thrown in jail.
> >
> > Bert
> >
> They did "reach them". The tool was 8-VSB. It worked. Nokia, Pace and
> all the others said we want NO part of 8-VSB. End of story.
>
> They still want NO part of it. No one does except Sinclair, Samsung
> and R&S at the moment. To late and not enough players IMO. And A-VSB
> is still garbage until you can show me otherwise.
>
> When most of the world has gone with other standards that have been
> shown to work and are being accepted by their populations at an
> incredible rate the insanity is to stay the course with what is still
> a failed modulation, 8-VSB IMO.
>
> Bob Miller
>
>
> >
>
>
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