Eory Frank-p22212 wrote: >Tom Barry wrote: > > > >>How many generations should LG/Zenith be allowed before we are >>allowed to start making fun of them? >> >> > >Give them a break -- it takes hundreds of man-years and millions of R&D >dollars to invent & productize a completely new and unproven digital >modulation system, and then optimize it for a particular application like OTA >DTV. This is still pretty bleeding-edge technology, and it may take a few more >generations to get it right. > >In any case, I don't believe that "making fun of them" is the appropriate >response. Crying, screaming and hair-pulling, perhaps -- but there's nothing >particularly funny about this situation. > >-- Frank > Would you possibly agree that it would have been financially better even for LG if COFDM had been adopted in 2000? I mean they could possibly have sold many more HD displays with much higher profit margins if we had had COFDM these past five years. Bob Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.