From the latest JB HiFi (Australian CE retailer) letterbox catalogue delivered today
$1,997 42" Samsung 16:9 PDP 1024x768 2x HDMI $2,999 50" Samsung 16:9 PDP 1024x768 2x HDMI $2,496 42" Panasonic 16:9 PDP 1024x768 2x HDMI $2,239 42" Samsung 16:9 PDP 1024x768 3x HDMI $2,493 42" Hitachi 16:9 PDP 1024x1080 2x HDMI $2,196 42" LG 16:9 PDP 1024x768 1x HDMI $2,998 50" LG 16:9 PDP 1366x768 1x HDMI $3,296 50" Hitachi 16:9 PDP 1024x1080 2x HDMI $3,496 50" Panasonic 16:9 PDP 1366x768 2x HDMI $3,296 50" Samsung 16:9 PDP 1024x768 3x HDMI $3,986 50" LG 16:9 PDP 1366x768 2x HDMI +250GB Built-in HD PVR $4,998 50" Pioneer 16:9 PDP 2x HDMI $2,296 42" Soniq 16:9 PDP 1920x1080p HDMI $3,783 40" Samsung 16:9 LCD 1920x1080p 3x HDMI $4,296 42" LG 16:9 PDP 1920x1080p 2x HDMI +160GB Built-in HD PVR $4,998 46" Sharp 16:9 LCD 1920x1080p HDMI $5,298 46" Sony 16:9 LCD 1920x1080p HDMI $2,796 40" Samsung 16:9 LCD 1366x768 3x HDMI $2,496 42" LG 16:9 LCD 1366x768 HDMI $2,996 40" Sony 16:9 LCD 1366x768 HDMI $3,293 42" LG 16:9 LCD 1366x768 2x HDMI +160GB Built-in HD PVR $1,798 32" Samsung 16:9 LCD 1366x768 3x HDMI $1,746 32" LG 16:9 LCD 1366x768 HDMI $1,987 32" Sony 16:9 LCD 1366x768 HDMI $1,799 32" Hitachi 16:9 LCD 1366x768 HDMI $1,496 26" Samsung 16:9 LCD HDMI Notes: 1) All models feature an integrated 7MHz DVB-T SD/HD tuner 2) Prices in Australian dollars----- Original Message ----- From: "Ciril Kosorok" <kosorok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:01 PM 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 AustraliaIn 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.---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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