[opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
- From: "peter wilson" <peter.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:44:38 -0000
Hi All,
At the risk of being unpleasantly savaged again by Mr Macdonald and being
called un-American which I am sure the many people I know in the US would
dispute I can shed some light on this.
Europe went through an ugly and unpleasant trade war with Japan over the
HDTV system in the 80's until early nineties.
The European and Japanese CE companies watched in horror as the ATSC grand
plan evolved. The Computer lobby waded in, the story at the time was that
the chairman of the FCC Reed Hunt was a school friend of Bill Gates and
slowed everything down to allow MS to catch up. Zenith shareholders must
have made a fortune by lobbying to save the last US CE manufacturer then
dumping the company on our Korean friends as soon as VSB was cemented in
place. Worst of all was the plan by the ATSC to convert the world to ATSC
thus breaking up decades of trade arrangements between European companies
and their ex colonies. The ATSC machine was brash, arrogant and hardened the
attitudes against ATSC. I personally warned Robert Graves and Mark Richer
that there would be a huge backlash if they made another fight like Europe
Verses Japan. There was also at this time a lot of collateral to prove that
COFDM was superior to VSB. The Irony is as Steven Long has said many times
on this list that COFDM is also an American Invention.
The ultimate result was the commercial cooperation of many entities to make
DVB a success and keep ATSC at bay including the very European and Japanese
companies who had wasted a fortune on the previous battle.
Perhaps the lack of product form the inheritor of the technology is that the
technology cupboard was in fact bare and they are too embarrassed to say so.
Best Regards to all,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Shutt
Sent: 23 March 2006 17:31
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
Al,
In your estimation, what did the DVB do differently from the ATSC?
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Since the demise of RCA, there has been no company involved in all aspects
> of the TV business. The broadcasters have expected CE manufacturers to do
> all their R & D work with no up-front payoff. They should have funded a
> private R & D lab, like Bell Labs to do their system work and obtain
> patents
> assigned to a corporation set up to license CE manufacturers.
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