[opendtv] Re: Bob likes COFDM

Frank,

However most people in the US are not currently affected as 85% are on ca=
ble/satellite, NTSC continues, and when the baloon goes up to reveal indo=
or OTA DTV doesn't work there will be such an outcry that, well folks, NT=
SC will continue. The only people to lose their shirts will be CE and sil=
icon vendors prepared to spend millions of dollars on bleeding edge 8VSB =
technology: and how many CEOs, CFOs and investors will sanction that spen=
d if there are no perceived markets? None: which is what we are seeing ri=
ght now. The vendor community is walking away..

Now a 'completely new and unproven digital modulation technology': wasn't=
 that what they said about COFDM in the period 1993-1998?. They are not l=
aughing now..

What a tragic mess US DTV has become!.

Kind Regards,

Dermot Nolan

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RE:     [opendtv] Re: Bob likes COFDM

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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 d=
ollars to invent & productize a completely new and unproven digital modul=
ation 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 not=
hing particularly funny about this situation.

-- Frank
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