[opendtv] Re: Why aren't there more converter boxes?
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:51:47 -0500
John Shutt wrote:
> Bert,
>
> Could you please expand on what you meant by this sentence?
>
> John
>
>> Local OTA stations would then have an incentive to make
>> their OTA plants work.
One of the few points Craig makes that I agree with is that local
stations seem happy to rely on cable and DBS to get their content out.
And maybe this is why broadcasters and their NAB did not raise a bigger
stink about the bad results with 8-VSB back in the early days.
If retransmission consent (and must carry) didn't exist, it seems
undeniable that the OTA broadcasters and their NAB would have been more
pro-active about making sure that good hardware for OTA TV be made
available to consumers. Whether that means switching over to COFDM or
whether that means having those innovations from 2002 and later get in
the hands of consumers. Instead of languishing for mysterious reasons in
black holes.
On the other hand, if the OTA broadcasters' main concern is to get these
retranmsission consent agreements in place, the emphasis placed on the
OTA plant is bound to be diluted. Especially when they become convinced
that "if I turned off my transmitters, no one would notice."
Bert
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