[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:54:12 -0500
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Tom Barry wrote:
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>>There has never been any significant portion of USA OTA-only
>>STB sales, since the dawn of time. I think we can safely
>>assume the CE companies do not feel it would be a good
>>business proposition to make them.
>>
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>That seems to be the case. What I don't get is why they go
>to the extreme of deliberately selling an obsolete design,
>when they could (one would think) use the same production
>line to make the DBS and the OTA-only STBs. It just seems
>like very deliberate, to me.
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>>I don't expect those CE companies to suddenly start making
>>them tomorrow, or next year, or before hell freezes over.
>>Something will have to change first.
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>I think the change will be analog shutoff. Not too different
>from the German case, where analog shutoff was the needed
>catalyst.
>
>Bert
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The analog turnoff in Germany provided a short term stimulus but was not
crucial to the transition. It was good advertising for OTA but the real
reason for success in Germany as in the UK was the free offering of many
digital programs. The UK will not have analog turnoff for years.
Bob Miller
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