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[opendtv] Re: PR: I want my DTV

From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:28:57 -0400
I somewhat think the driver for HDTV in the USA will be the attempt by 
  cable companies to equate it with digital cable.  Thus it will be a 
stealth premium service, having an increasing amount of HDTV material 
that requires a digital cable subscription and various tiers to get. 
The cable companies still have a competitive bandwidth advantage in 
this over the satellite folks.

- Tom


Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> At 1:37 PM -0400 6/30/04, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> 
>>Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>>
>>
>>> According to the following report, it is DVD, NOT
>>> HDTV that is driving the adoption of new digital
>>> television displays in most areas of the world...
>>
>>I think you seriously misinterpreted what the article
>>is saying. As in:
>>
>>"High-definition television (HDTV) - a subset of
>>the overall DTV market - will eventually have a
>>dramatic impact on consumer education and
>>adoption of digital TV in certain parts of the
>>world."
> 
> 
> What misinterpretation?
> 
> Note the use of the term "eventually."
> 
> The reality is that even here in the U.S., TODAY, DVD is a stronger 
> driver of purchases of HD capable displays than HD receivers and/or 
> program services.
> 
> I agree that HD will be a strong driver in the future as it becomes 
> more pervasive, ESPECIALLY in non-entertainment applications of 
> digital media.
> 
> I do not agree that HD entertainment is going to cause any 
> significant shift in the mass market for TV displays in the next few 
> years. Perhaps in a decade we may see HD become commonplace. For the 
> rest of this decade it is going to remain a market niche, closely 
> coupled with home theater systems.
> 
>>And
>>
>>"At this point, HDTV content delivery, and therefore
>>set adoption, is essentially limited to Australia,
>>Canada, Japan, South Korea, and the United States for
>>the foreseeable future. Digital TV in other parts of
>>the world will continue to be driven by advances in
>>flat-panel displays and the red-hot DVD market, ..."
> 
> 
> Yup. In the countries listed above there is some HD content 
> available. Korea may be the most advanced in terms of peo0ple buying 
> HD capable displays and actually watching HD programming. In 
> Austrailia there is VERY LITTLE HD content available today, as is the 
> case in Japan. Canada is mostly getting its HD content from the U.S. 
> In all of these countries, DVD is the dominant driver of sales of HD 
> capable displays today.
> 
> 
>>Bottom line is that only in those parts of the world
>>where HDTV is unavailable will DVD *alone* drive the
>>adoption of so-called digital TV, according to this
>>article.
> 
> 
> Nobody said anything about "alone." The dominant driver in my 
> purchase of an HD capable display was the desire for a "watchable" 
> big screen image. The integration of a deinterlacer for SDTV was the 
> dominant driver of my purchase. DVD was second. HD is now on the 
> horizon, but still mostly unimportant to my family.
> 
> Ther are other drivers as well. Perhaps the most significant is the 
> appeal of flat or very thin cabinets that take up less space in the 
> room. For others, it is the ability to display the progressive scan 
> output of a PC, which can act as a DVR, source of content (tuners and 
> libraries of images and music), and a portal to IP based services. HD 
> is just one of many factors that are causing people to buy HD capable 
> displays.
> 
> 
>>So when you say "in most areas of the world," it's
>>only true because "most areas" won't see HDTV for
>>some time!
> 
> 
> 
> We even disagree here.
> 
> Because of the success of HD as a niche service in the U.S. and a few 
> other countries, and especially because a significant amount of 
> premium content is now being made available in HD, it is likely that 
> HD services will be available in virtually all developed countries in 
> the next 2-3 years. The most likely form of distribution for this 
> content will be satellite. Cable will also be a factor in some areas. 
> And HD-DVD is just around the corner, IF the major content providers 
> elect to support the new standard.
> 
> The reality is the same around the world. HD is now, and will become 
> an important driver of premium television services in the near 
> future. This should not be confused with the continuing mass market 
> for SDTV. As Mark Schubin pointed out in this week's memo:
> 
> 
>>- NPD Intelect, which measures sales to consumers (except Wal-Mart, 
>>catalogs, and Internet) reported 404,660 CRT-based projection TVs in 
>>the first quarter and 56,623 microdisplay-based (DLP and different 
>>forms of LCD) projection TVs. LCD 27-inch and up exceeded plasma. 
>>But CRT still has a roughly 11 times more units sold than non-CRT:
> 
> 
> The mass market is not going HD anytime soon.
> 
> Regards
> Craig
>  
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