[opendtv] Re: As analog shutdown nears, antenna reality emerges

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <
albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I think what will happen in practice is that people will re-optimize their
> antenna systems for DTT, in due course. As I'm set up now, especially
> downstairs, virtually all analog TV is unwatchable. DTT is, conversely,
> great. Upstairs, still depending on the 2004 design HD 3150Plus, analog and
> digital reception are more similar.
>


Bert do you get out in the public?  My experience so far has been that the
average customer is NOT going to put up an outdoor antenna to get several HD
channels when they can subscribe to cable or satellite and get far more HD
content.  Those un-willing to subscribe to cable or satellite will change
their lifestyle - going to Internet-delivery of content, subscription DVD's
or just watch what they already have.

Plus, where are they going to buy these antennas?  Few, if any stores carry
anything more than table-top silver sensor type antenna.  Yet you can sign
up for cable and/or satellite at almost every store selling HD
receiver/monitors.

Most of the Top-4 affiliates in North Carolina's 3 major markets have
already determined their losses for next February.  And that's what they
are, viewers that have been technologically eliminated.  The cost of doing
business.

Don Moore
Greensboro, NC

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