[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo

Tom Barry wrote:

>Bob Miller wrote:
> > It emphatically does not have to be made to work. We have been "making
> > it work" unsuccessfully now for years. We could petition Congress to
> > change the modulation. If all broadcasters and many like ourselves did
> > that it would happen. Congress is operating in an information vacuum. I
> > saw that a few weeks ago when I confronted Congressman Barton on the
> > need for a decent receiver.
> >
> > He was totally convinced that there was NO problem. That is what
> > manufacturers tell him because manufacturers think that is what he wants
> > to hear. It was the same back in 2000. No one tells Congress what is the
> > reality.
>
>
>Actually I believe that eventually broadcasters will tell the truth to 
>Congress about how well 8vsb does or does not work.  They are probably 
>laying the groundwork for it now, but will wait a bit.  It seems fairly 
>likely to me that if we ever get within about 12 months of the time when 
>broadcasters have to give back their spectrum that will be the time when 
>broadcasters will start officially claiming we need something better 
>than 8vsb.  And they will be believed, with quite a stink.
>
>- Tom
>  
>
You are starting to hear the NAB talk more about the need for adequate 
receivers and the break between the NAB and the CEA is getting deeper. 
Maybe it will happen sooner. But once broadcasters see others using TV 
spectrum to broadcast mobile and or they are denied must carry of 
multicast I think things could go ballistic.

Bob Miller
 
 
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