[opendtv] Re: DTT tuner design

  • From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 00:39:39 -0400

On 7/4/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Worse, even if broadcasters offered lots of good HD content most any
cable broadband customer can get the same stations with any QAM cable
ready HDTV or PC card for an incremental fee of maybe -$5 to $5.  If you
don't need the cable HD box then the network stations are usually
offered in unencrypted QAM on the lifeline cable package and bundled
with broadband for practically nothing (or less).  And if you like the
cable PVR deal then HD is usually bundled that way too.

And I'm not sure whether broadcasters prefer their viewers use antennas
vs the above.  In many ways it is simpler and more profitable to just
let cable support them, especially if you can get paid for it.

Of course in the long run this is likely to devalue the OTA franchise
politically and cause some more encroachments on the spectrum, relative
interference worries, exclusive local rights, net affiliate contract
renegotiations, etc.

- Tom

And eventually more auctions.

Bob Miller


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