[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:25:08 -0500
Dale Kelly wrote:
>> Except that the CEA doesn't see those "sign up" bonuses
>> either, do they? If anything, the NCTA, right?
>
> Your equation leaves out the retailer, who does receive
> the Cable/Satellite kick back and who is the also the CEA
> members sole customer.
Yes, you have a point. Although what Mark Aitken said
yesterday, assuming I understand it correctly, is even more
troubling:
Mark Aitken wrote:
> I know that when a sale is made to Satellite, there is a
> "pop" for the signing party. In some cases, there is a
> continuing "residual". If you want OTA DTV anymore (with
> just a few exceptions), you have to be a "paying member"
> of someones.
Does this mean that CE manufacturers are encouraged not to
build anything for OTA use, because they can generate an
infinite revenue stream for each sale if they can coerce
people to get suckered into a subscription service?
I'd find this so blatantly anti-competitive that I'm
wondering why we've been debating about must-carry or the
effect of adopting DVB-T. These other factors would fade
into insignificance if the market were so badly skewed.
By the way, my brother reports that it's easy to find DVB-T
STBs for sale in Rome, even though DTT there is not quite
fully deployed yet. Not all multiplexes are being
transmitted by each translator site as of now.
Here's another little tid bit. I was at Myer Emco last
Saturday. These are relatively high end audio/video stores.
I asked whether they carried any ATSC STBs.
"No, we don't," he said.
"How come?"
"Because DTV receivers are built into all TV sets. If you
bought a TV in the past 10 years, it will have the DTV
receiver built-in already."
Gosh, I guess I've been watching HDTV all along, thinking
it was NTSC. The image quality sucks. No wonder people are
switching to cable.
Unbelievable. And to make matters even worse, I noticed a
customer listening intently to one of the "experts" while
I was there, and TAKING NOTES!
Bert
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