Dale Kelly wrote: I had written: > > 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 Sorry, did not mean to imply it had ever been *your* argument. I was being non-specific on purpose. > 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. Perhaps, although I don't see that incoporating analog UHF tuners with a similar mandate was any big deal burden to the CE vendors or the public. Quite the contrary. On the subject of royalties, I'm not sure what the differences are between low-end digital cable STBs and ATSC STBs in terms of royalty costs. All I can guess is the 8-VSB delta, which amounts to what? Is it $16? I can never keep straight what applies to 8-VSB and what applies to MPEG-2. In any event, it should run out before too long, no? 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.