[opendtv] Re: Copps proposes more FCC action
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:27:21 -0400
And Wilmington would not be considered a pre-test of the transition
because proper testing would have been done in 2000.
Bob Miller
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Bob Miller <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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