[opendtv] Re: Twenty comments; Re: Re: Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition
- From: "Barry Wilkins" <barry.barrywilkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:55:20 +1300
Cliff,
Realistically, you cannot please all of the people even some of the time. At
some point, you will have to settle for a certain number of disaffected
people.
In all of this I have made an assumption that in 3 years the US broadcasters
have made sure they have fully advertised the change over on screen, so
anybody who can actually view a screen and make sense of it has been
adequately warned. I have not allowed for any possibility of
misunderstanding as appears to be possible in the case as follows below.
In comparison, the NZ switch over date is not yet decided, according to my
interpretation of the official statement.
It states that the date of analogue to digital switch over will be
*decided*when 75% of the households have some form of DTV reception or
by 2012, which
ever arrives first.
Now my interpretation of this is that the date is decided at that time, not
that the switch over will occur at that time. Amazingly, many in the news
media take the statement to mean the latter intent. Why did they not
recognize the word "decided" in the statement I wonder?
The only way I can accept that the actual switch over date was intended to
be 2012 or by 75% penetration is if there has been an error in the
publication of the official statement or that the statement was poorly
written in an ambiguous way (less likely). I have had strong denial from at
least one official website and marketer of products as to my take on this
but of course it is in their interest to push the shortest time scale
scenario.
So, to get back to your transition, I expect that there has been no
misunderstanding regarding the advice given. Secondly I expected that the
advertising was sufficiently prolonged to ensure awareness.
Of course, it has been mentioned there would be a political backlash, the
date occurring as it does at a sensitive time for the new government.
Realistically, I accept this is likely to result in a delayed transition
date.
Regards
Barry
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
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> Cliff Benham wrote:
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> Here are some random anonymous quotes [from 20 out of 55 emails]
> from these other technical people who have a view of the transition
> which I believe is more like that of most people who do not live,
> eat and breathe the technical, political and financial aspects of
> television.
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> To the last one, the comments sounded like they were from non-technical
> types. However, some of them did get it. Others sounded more like my
> mom.
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> You can disagree with their comments and think they are non-technical if
> you want.
> I just passed on their thoughts so you could understand that not everybody
> agrees with the
> "religiously zealous" beliefs in digital and HD that proliferate on this
> list.
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