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[opendtv] Re: News: Tuner Comments Fly

From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:03:59 -0400


Bob Miller wrote:
 > The audience was ecstatic, believed every word. And the receiver was
 > also perfect, had no problems with reception. Same thing at a meeting
 > with Joe Barton. I suggested that some kind of tuner spec would be
 > necessary if all hell wouldn't break loose upon the distribution of
 > millions of receivers to those most in need especially in inner cities
 > and was shouted down by a representative of Motorola who said all
 > problems of reception were a thing of the past. Joe Barton said that he
 > had been assured that this was true.

Everyone does seem willing to act for the moment as if that is all true.

Maybe it is.

But I still believe that, at the very last minute, broadcasters (the NAB 
members) will jump in and challenge all these years of assumptions very 
effectively and embarrassingly unless they get their multi-must-carry.

I wonder if Zoran, Motorola, ATI, and Zenith all replied in writing to 
the NAB RFP with anything like the above terms?  ;-)

- Tom






> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> 
> 
>>At 5:50 PM -0400 7/31/05, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>Hmmm. Getting pretty close to my $35 estimate from
>>>several years ago, for 12/31/2006.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Not really.
>>
>>Your prediction was that the tuner would sell for $35
>>
>>ATI is predicting that they will sell a tuner for $40 in a few years.
>>
>>That's cost, not retail, and we have been hearing such predictions 
>>for Motorola, ATI (Nxtwave) et all for nearly a decade, yet they 
>>never come true.
>>
>>Regards
>>Craig
>>
> 
> I listened to Zoran tell Congressional aids how the price for a tuner by 
> Christmas this year could be as little as under $60. This is how they 
> described it. Their basic board with tuner and decoder would cost $40 in 
> quantities of millions. Then their OEM would add a box with power 
> supply, remote and pay royalties of $5, package, distribute, advertise, 
> include a margin for retailers, take back defective units all with a 
> final in store price of $60.
> 
> The audience was ecstatic, believed every word. And the receiver was 
> also perfect, had no problems with reception. Same thing at a meeting 
> with Joe Barton. I suggested that some kind of tuner spec would be 
> necessary if all hell wouldn't break loose upon the distribution of 
> millions of receivers to those most in need especially in inner cities 
> and was shouted down by a representative of Motorola who said all 
> problems of reception were a thing of the past. Joe Barton said that he 
> had been assured that this was true.
> 
> Maybe by 2009 but they were talking about next year at the time asking 
> questions about how many months from now these millions of receivers 
> could be made available.
> 
> Bob Miller
> 
> Bob Miller
>  
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[opendtv] Re: News: Tuner Comments Fly
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