[opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:31:50 -0700
This is as I reported from Australia in November.
IMO, Ciril's report is correct in all areas.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ciril Kosorok
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:01 AM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia
>
>
>In Australian TV retail land, it's impossible to miss DVB-T products from
>name & no-name brand manufacturers at many different price points offering
>iDTV's, STB's and PVR's. This alone is sending a strong message to
>prospective consumers; Digital TV is here and you can buy with confidence.
>
>Also, name brand suppliers are rapidly abandoning SD/HD STB's in favour of
>fully integrated SD/HD DTV products, which from a retailer
>perspective is a
>much easier sell. And all this without a tuner mandate!
>
>Therefore, IMO, a robust modulation scheme is a pre-requisite to ensure
>market success. If DTV reception were crap, retailers would not carry DTV
>products and CE manufactures would not invest in DTV R&D, as angry
>customers
>are the last thing retailers & manufacturers want or need!!!
>
>DTV engineers also understand very well the various DTV modulation
>schemes,
>their weaknesses and strengths. If the US modulation scheme was as good as
>many claim it to be, those same Australian suppliers would be over there
>'like Flynn', plying their wares to US consumers even if only 10% of US
>households needed DTV OTA products, as this is still greater market than
>Australia's 7 million OTA households!
>
>I'm currently in the process of building a Media Centre PC on which I will
>store our entire audio CD collection in WMA Lossless format. As
>part of this
>process I also need a family friendly media centre GUI and currently I'm
>evaluating MediaPortal; an open source program. What really caught my eye
>was its ATSC and DVB tuner card support;
>http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Supported_TVCards . Number of supported
>DVB-T products = 80; ATSC = 14, and yes my DVB-T PCI card (Nebula)
>is on the
>list! Enough said.
>
>Ciril Kosorok
>Sydney - AUSTRALIA
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:03 AM
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia
>
>
>> In absolute number of OTA only viewers, who has more, Australia
>or the US?
>>
>> John
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> If we had OTA viewership here, we too would have had 80 brands of STB.
>>> Instead, we have a population that forgot about OTA TV more than two
>>> decades ago. Only satisfied with 150 TV channels.
>>
>>
>>
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