Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >Possibly. These numbers are households rather than TV sets, >and they assume that anyone connected to cable MUST NOT also >be connected to DBS. For example, someone who uses cable only >to get broadband Internet service would be counted as a cable >household. E.g. my neighbor uses OTA + cable for IP service + >DBS for the rest of TV channels, so he counts as two separate >households, both of which use multichannel systems, without >increasing the number of total households. Interesting! > >That table also uses 97M households as the total number, >but in the back of that same document they claim 108.41M as >being the actual number. The point the table tries to make is >that 1/4 of US households uses *other than* cable for TV >programs, and by the way, the table adds to 100 percent >without mentioning OTA. > > 97M households are the total number of households in the MVPD universe. That is not all the households. The figures quoted add up to 100% because they are supposed to. The percentages are of all MVPD segments of the universe which totals 97M households and which is 89.483% of all US households as presented by the Nielsen figure of 108.4M. The remainder, 10.52%, represents those NOT part of the MVPD universe. Then subtract the 2% who have NO TV= 8.52% and the 6.22% that steal from cable and satellite = 2.32% Yes there are some who are counted by both cable and satellite. How many I don't know. 2.32% is a real rough number but it has some truth in it. We are very close to absolute ZERO. I would hazard we are at least as close as Berlin was and they claimed 5% at the time of their very successful DTV transition. They handed out or subsidized 6000 receivers. >But overall, if I were to believe those numbers without >looking any closer, I'd say "all the more reason to shut off >NTSC on 12/31/2006, as originally planned." Never mind any >purported "redefinition" of the 85 percent rule by the FCC. >It's not necessary. I'd say shut OTA off, forget about any >govt assistance for low income households, since there appear >to be none that can't afford some subscription service, and >give a revived DTT system a chance. If it fails, yank back >all the OTA frequencies and auction them off. > >(I get about 7.2 percent of households relying on OTA, from >their numbers adjusted to the 108.41M figure, but that's >questionable. It'll be interesting to see what the NAB has >to say to the FCC on this issue, after they finally >respond.) > >Bert > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > >- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at >FreeLists.org > >- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word >unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.