On 12/14/06, Steve Wilson <stevenjwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is the big play.....the cable companies are going to milk the kids who grew up on cable and crappy OTA reception, but the new kids on the block, the techo geeks of today are going to have nothing to do with cable. Its going to be internet distribution for them, and OTA - assuming the broadcasters can get their (and I use "their" lightly) system working. Based on history, can we predict Qualcomm will somehow get mixed up in A-VSB - or whatever the portability answer is?
Qualcomm has over 50 pattens of COFMD, many more in the works and recently bought a major OFDM company. Their MediaFlo technology that they plan on using for broadcasting to cell phones is COFDM based. If it wasn't for the above Qualcomm would not be in the broadcasting business. And they plan on exiting ASAP via selling off this broadcast venture or distributing it to shareholders after they get it going. I don't think Qualcomm will have anything to do with A-VSB. They are even planning on going with COFDM for cellular. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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