[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:21:11 -0500
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>John Shutt wrote:
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>>Until the US offers "DTV Exclusive" programming, it will
>>take an analog cutoff to provide any incentive to buy
>>digital STBs.
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>Concur 100 percent. Offering more than analog OTA had been
>offering seems important also in France and Germany.
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And it would have been offered ala USDTV ventures in 2001 if COFDM had
been allowed. And it will be offered when and if there is a solid receiver.
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>>Would this situation been different had the US adopted
>>the Sinclair petition? In my opinion YES because
>>broadcasters such as Papas and Sinclair would have been
>>touting DTV much more than they did, and networks would
>>have been looking for ways to leverage more profit by
>>offering DTV exclusive derivative multicasts of their
>>cable brands. (ESPN/Disney for ABC, News for NBC, MTV
>>for CBS, and movies for Fox)
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>I agree, Craig would probably disagree. Craig argued that
>the major networks are just as happy making that extra
>content they produce exclusive to cable and DBS. My
>question was always why not do both?
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Because they are not paying attention. If COFDM had been allowed others
would have badgered broadcasters to pay attention. USDTV has gotten the
attention some broadcasters who have invested in it. But again if we had
a working modulation with inexpensive plug and play receivers all this
would have/will happen. Would have happened in 2001, will happen whenever.
Broadcasters will start paying a lot more attention now that the
deadline is set and will pay even more attention after multicast must
carry is finally buried by Congress or the Supreme Court.
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>>As exampled by the prototypes that have been tested by
>>Bob Miller, even 2005 STBs fail to live up to the LG
>>prototype, so there still is something else to be solved.
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>I think this is overstated, as you know. The problem was
>solved, and I've only seen conjecture that the solution is
>somehow too expensive. I think a good guess is that the
>difference in the LG prototype was the tuner, yes?
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Problems are not solved. STB's that we know we can get today that are
not as good as the prototype we have a possible business plan, with
unavailable prototype quality receivers we have a better but
uninteresting plan with receivers that are probably $100 to $150 more
than what COFDM would cost but with COFDM today we have a very exciting
plan.
Whatever the difference with the prototype only one thing matters, it
doesn't exist.
>If so, you might be interested to look at the Zarlink web
>site. Remember that a Zarlink employee co-authored that
>interesting article from Digital TV DesignLine, where he
>discussed what it took to make a tuner compliant with A/74.
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>Well, gues what? Zarlink seems to have made an all-standards
>tuner, probably the motivation for that article. It is
>compatible with all their demods, ATSC, DVB-T, DMB-T. It
>suggests an intriguing situation where DVB-T front ends are
>designed to comply with A/74.
>
>Anyway, the point is that if the tuner was the difference,
>these same good tuners would apply to all DTT receivers, so
>the argument that they cost too much can't hold. Or at
>least, not for very long.
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We assume they will cost too much and they definitely don't exist. So
that is why nothing is happening. So call LG and ask them why.
Bob Miller
>Bert
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