[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV

  • From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:55:55 -0500

John Shutt wrote:

> Who is "we" Bert?  The "we" that refused to support the
> Sinclair Petition because Nxtwave and Motorola promised
> to fix ATSC in 1999 and are just STARTING to make it
> passable in 2005?
>
> Everything in the digital transition hinged solely on
> working receivers.

Gee, I didn't mean to get you started on that old refrain
again, John. Honest. I was simply suggesting that the
1/1/2007 date was not at all a "joke," as the article
stated, and could have been met with decent working
receivers.

> We still don't have receivers that work as well as
> COFDM,

Time for a retest, that is unlikely to happen.

Bert
 
 
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