Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>The reality Bert is that there is not a sufficient consumer market for
>OTA STBs in the U.S.
Not just STBs, but also PVRs and DVDRs. All it takes to make a TV solution
attractive to people. Integrated receivers in TV sets is certainly one
component of a successful deployment, but not sufficient. Plain STBs are but
one product these other companies could offer.
I know your position, though. You believe that COFDM would not solve the DTT
problem in the US. You believe that the DTT spectrum should be drastically
repurposed, and that for THAT repurposing, COFDM would be a better choice.
Just to keep the different threads straight.
(And again, where DTT is successful, it has been, to date, to offer FOTA TV
and not much else. And low-cost ATSC STBs, be they the Accurian on sale or
the new Samsung, do have a way of flying off the store shelves. Go figure.)
Bert