[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: "Benham, Cliff" <Cliff_Benham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:50:04 -0500
What possible incentive is there for Dish and DirecTV who compete =
fiercely roughly splitting the U.S. satellite audience to imrpove image =
quality? None. Give up more programs for better pictures? Never happen.
No one over here knows from or cares about better image quality, just =
more stupid programs.
More than half the audience of either system would have to complain loud =
and long to begin to get=20
any attention paid to this idea. Nobody knows, nobody cares. What =
percentage of Sat, cable and ATSC
viewers actually have and watch TV in HD? Less than 3 % I bet.
________________________________
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu 12/15/2005 2:34 PM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
I think Barry's email applies to the US as it does to his situation down
there.
And Doug McDonald suggestion of eliminating the duplication of bit =
streams
is just plain brilliant! I would ask, why does the government need to =
get
involved? Can't Dish and DirecTV figure this out for themselves?
Dan
=
=20
Doug McDonald =
=20
<mcdonald@xxxxxxx To: =
opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =20
c.edu> cc: =
=20
Sent by: Subject: [opendtv] Re: =
Toward digital TV =20
opendtv-bounce@fr =
=20
eelists.org =
=20
=
=20
=
=20
12/15/2005 06:50 =
=20
AM =
=20
Please respond to =
=20
opendtv =
=20
=
=20
=
=20
Barry Wilkins wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I hope you will pardon a small diversion on the subject of "Toward
digital
> TV" but I have just had long and complicated discussions with a Sky =
New
> Zealand technical representative as to why some of the channels they
provide
> on their digital satellite DTH service have such abysmally poor image
> quality.
In the US it is trivial: thay are transmitting some 2500 channels
in inadequate bandwidth.
If our government were smarter, they would require that the two
satellite services merge their physicl layer and compete only
on advertising, exclusive content, and price. This would double the
bitrate for every channel.
Doug McDonald
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at
FreeLists.org
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word
unsubscribe in the subject line.
-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis --
-- Type: image/gif
-- File: graycol.gif
-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis --
-- Type: image/gif
-- File: ecblank.gif
-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis --
-- Type: image/gif
-- File: pic18588.gif
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at =
FreeLists.org
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word =
unsubscribe in the subject line.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:
- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at
FreeLists.org
- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word
unsubscribe in the subject line.
Other related posts: