> Dale Kelly wrote: > > IMO, the value to Motorola in the announcement of such a low > > price is to add > > value to the Congressman's agenda of speeding the transition. Bert Replied: > For example, how can anyone go on insisting that built-in > ATSC tuners must go on costing $200, when stand-alone boxes > last Christmas cost that much? It's really bizarre. That has never been my argument though I do think, that since the integrated DTV receiver is the result of a mandate which does not have support in the CE and retail communities, that the product might not closely follow a typical successful products development cycle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:43 AM Subject: [opendtv] Re: Barriers eroding to LCD TV adoption > Dale Kelly wrote: > > > IMO, the value to Motorola in the announcement of such a low > > price is to add > > value to the Congressman's agenda of speeding the transition. > > Motorola has > > much to gain from product development for new services that > > will utilize the returned spectrum. > > Motorola has much to gain from both the returned spectrum and > from the tuner mandate/digital cable agreement. I really don't > know how they can lose in this. The only thing I can't figure > out is why so many folk seem so bent on pretending this > particular single example of CE manufacturing evolution can't > work like every other similar example. It's baffling. > > For example, how can anyone go on insisting that built-in > ATSC tuners must go on costing $200, when stand-alone boxes > last Christmas cost that much? It's really bizarre. > > 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.