Benham, Cliff wrote: > 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. They would not need to give up any programs: they would have TWICE the spectrum, and could increase bitrates by two for everything, or by 1.5 and add scads of HDTV. 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.