[opendtv] Re: Bob, where are the tunerless monitors?

  • From: "johnwillkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:42:25 -0700

" The good modulations that
will be used on channels above 51 will drive out the bad modulation
below 51. Would not have said that in 2000 but I had no idea how bad
8-VSB was then."

Actually, this is contrary to your previous post in this thread, where you
said that 8-VSB has improved enough (in part) to boost sales of integrated
TV sets.

So, were you lying with the comments quoted above, or were you lying in your
previous post?  I don't know (or really care) which, but I do know that you
were lying in at least one of them.

YOU ARE LYING.  Stop now, before you need to make a second (or third) lie to
try to rationalize the current one(s).

John Willkie

-----Mensaje original-----
De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:00 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Bob, where are the tunerless monitors?

On 7/12/07, Albert Manfredi <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Shutt wrote:
>
> >It will be interesting to see how many people come to the dance
> >with STB coupons in their hands, only to find nobody to dance
> >with.
>
> If ATSC TVs are going to be as cheap as the prices today suggest, you'd
> really need a coupon to make buying the STB worthwhile. Still, those 70+M
TV
> sets that need OTA reception, as the estimates suggest, will make some STB
> manufacturers a decent income on US taxpayer dollars. That can't be lost
to
> them. And it wouldn't hurt if broadcasters would remind people
continuously
> that they will need to get the STB or new TV, by the way, John. That would
> create the market for the cheapo boxes that go on sale this coming
January.
>
> Or instead, we can continue making pessimistic predictions, even though
each
> of them has turned out to be dead wrong.
>
The fact that virtually no one is using OTA is still true after almost
TEN years. That is even worse that I would have predicted in 2000 when
we talked of five years before 8-VSB  was "fixed" good enough to be
useful.

Five years was the "pessimistic prediction" that has been more than
borne out and is now HISTORY. It can't be changed. It is now a fact
that 8-VSB was a disaster for years as predicted. If it were to be
"fixed" and virtually perfect tomorrow nothing will change the fact
that it was the wrong choice and in my opinion IS still by far the
wrong choice.

I will make the prediction again that if we stick to 8-VSB OTA will be
marginalized to extinction on channels 2-51. The good modulations that
will be used on channels above 51 will drive out the bad modulation
below 51. Would not have said that in 2000 but I had no idea how bad
8-VSB was then.

Bob Miller

 
 
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