[opendtv] Re: Copps proposes more FCC action
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:35:03 -0700
Don't drink and write emails; you end sounding like a foolish child who has
become a loser.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:26 AM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Copps proposes more FCC action
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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