[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA

  • From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:15:21 -0400

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:

 > What do you want me to say? I don't know why these boxes
 > haven't been on store shelves for the past two years,
 > but I know it has nothing to do with RF modulation
 > schemes.
 >

My own guess is they anticipate, and have experienced, high returns as 
folks try to use the boxes with indoor antenna.   Most PVRs are fairly 
worthless if you have to rotate the antenna before timer recording.  And 
a dual tuner PVR becomes hopeless under those conditions.

I said I was pleased and intended to keep my $90 Radio Shack Accurian 
box but that still means I use a manual switch to change antennas and 
occasionally get up to manually rotate my living room antenna mast.  Try 
and sell that to the PVR users. ;-)

- Tom

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Bert says, "When reasonably priced and good recording
>>devices with integrated ATSC receivers become
>>available,"
>>
>>When? Why not now?
> 
> 
> Don't ask me, I ain't the CE guy.
> 
> I am baffled by the implication, yours and others, that
> somehow DVB-T would change this state of affairs.
> 
> ATSC is perfectly capable of being applied to such
> recording devices, at prices that are competitive with
> DVB-T. The question of why such products are finding it
> so difficult to get to store shelves.
> 
> With the tuner mandate/agreement, you'd think such
> products would be a slam dunk, wouldn't you? If I were
> a conspiracy theorist, I'd guess the reason they aren't
> making it to store shelves quickly is that CE vendors
> make more money by building only proprietary boxes for
> individual service providers. And the service providers
> prefer it that way as well.
> 
> And that the American consumer is willing to be led
> around by the nose by umbillical service providers more
> than their Euro and Aussie counterparts are.
> 
> What do you want me to say? I don't know why these boxes
> haven't been on store shelves for the past two years,
> but I know it has nothing to do with RF modulation
> schemes.
> 
> Bert
> 
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