[opendtv] Re: 5th gen receivers

At 1:22 PM -0600 1/23/05, Doug McDonald wrote:
>Bob Miller wrote:
>  > Just how does a broadcast system that is stuck in the stone age with
>>  8-VSB and MPEG2 and can't quite deliver a 1080i signal well survive for
>  > 35 years in the radical world of change we live in?
>
>Because the FCC says so.
>
>They say so because stability is needed to protect the
>equipment investments of almost 300,000,000 people.

If the OTA industry is stuck with 8-VSB and MPEG-2 for 30 years it 
simply won't exist. There will be too many 'end runs' around it for 
it to matter anymore.

Even 10 years from now it will be dead and gone if locked into that scenario.
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