Success would be McDonalds giving away free OTA DTV receivers to anyone who possibly still needed one with a Happy Meal and there would be no one from the FCC there cutting ribbons or pushing buttons. Bob Miller On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The idea that the Wilmington experience was "bad" or good depends on > what you consider your starting point. The FCC and you consider just > getting past the transition without a riot of problems, protest or > whatever as good or a success. This all in a population of 7% who > still depend on OTA TV in a flat coastal plain. > > I have a different perspective. I think that by now, after almost 10 > years of DTV broadcasting in the US, the actual end point of the > transition should have been a non event since by now success, IMO, > would be the fact that every home in Wilmington had at least one OTA > DTV device that was being used and that the average home in Wilmington > had around 5 or 6 OTA DTV receivers. > > Success would be defined by a small article in the Fisherman's Post > Newspaper reminding people of that little known event called analog > turnoff and just how much of a non-event it had turned out to be. > > Bob Miller > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Albert Manfredi > <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Bob Miller wrote: >> >>> If you were referring to my post I think it is on point and >>> very current. >>> >>> Maybe you could point out what you think is from the early >>> 2000s in it. >> >> No, actually I was referring to the whole rash of negative posts, that seem >> frozen in time. The only "current" topic was Wilmington. Wasn't Wilmington >> successful? Initially, I don't know by now, they got 104 trouble calls from >> 13,000 to 15,000 OTA households. And of those, 41 percent were about >> unspecified reception problems. That's bad? >> >> That aside, what comments were made that were anything resembling current? >> All I saw was hyperbole. >> >> Bert >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of >> your life. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/direct/01/ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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.