[opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia

So 3% OTA DTV and 3% analog? LPTV stations may be simulcasting DTV
stations in analog. Could be significant in some big cities.

Bob Miller

On 6/29/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'll only venture on totally rely on.  But I'd probably guess about 6%,
including all OTA, digital or no, by 2010.  I'm also guessing no
consensus can be reached on whose numbers to accept.

Maybe we can average a bunch of numbers nobody agrees on and then
pro-rate a percentage rise or fall from there.  ;-)

- Tom


Bob Miller wrote:
> Who would decide what the number was one year after transition?  You
> have at least a dozen numbers for what OTA is today. We know that most
> analog goes away in early 2009 but not all. So we should restrict it
> to DTV OTA.
>
> Should be a pretty good read on the number of converters sold and we
> can be pretty sure that their buyers will at least try them.
>
> Maybe we should just pick a research house that we all can agree on
> and say that their first survey that covers that first year will be
> the number and that number will be the number of households that they
> say rely on DTV OTA, one answer, or have at least one set that has OTA
> DTV capability and is used at least some specific minimum amount of
> time, second answer.
>
> Two different picks, one for OTA DTV only households and one for
> households with at least one USED OTA DTV receiver. Having one in the
> garage for emergencies that no one uses for anything else would not
> count.
>
> I will go with 3% for rely on and 6% for total number of households
> that have at least one receiver that is actually used some minimum
> amount of time for OTA DTV. Say 10 hours a week.
>
> I will probably be high on both counts. I am an eternal optimist.
> .
> Bob Miller
>
>
>
>
> On 6/28/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> One of the nice things about the USB receivers is that using a laptop
>> you can record what you got, breakups and all.  So a single individual
>> could go to one of those locations and record 10 minutes or so to show
>> quality was good with few breakups, or not.
>>
>> Having done that, try changing channels without antenna fiddling and
>> show the results of that also.
>>
>> But it might be a useful experiment.
>>
>> - Tom
>>
>
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