[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:54:21 -0500
Maybe something like "Defrauding Vision" by Joel Brinkley. ;-)
- Tom
Bob Miller wrote:
> Two books, one a Memoir by an NAB/ATSC ghost writer and another,
> stranger than fiction genre, by Mario.
>
> Bob Miller
>
> Nat Ostroff wrote:
>
>
>>John,
>>
>>I could not have told the story better. Thanks for the summery of the
>>events from those days. The lack of technical knowledge and vision as
>>well as the political influence that was exerted on NAB and others to
>>"not rock the boat" has delivered the over the air TV business into the
>>hands of the telecom folks. I suspect, just as they planned. If the
>>Sinclair petition for a dual standard had been approved we would today
>>be able to decide what businesses we, as broadcasters, wanted to
>>address. That petition sat in the FCC without any action longer than any
>>other on record. I can only speculate what forces were at work to delay
>>the FCC. If you all remember, it was during that time that certain
>>companies, in a coordinated fashion, issued press releases that claimed
>>that they had found a "miracle chip". Based on those press releases the
>>FCC finally rejected the Sinclair petition because"technical advances
>>promised to solve the problems of 8VSB". You can only wonder about the
>>timing of those press releases today and what went on behind the scenes.
>>Of course, the miracle chips never really amounted anything but their
>>vapor wear announcement killed any chance for a COFDM alternative.
>>
>>I think that there is a book in here somewhere....
>>
>>nat ostroff
>>
>>John Shutt wrote:
>>
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>>>Both the NAB and the MSTV were more concerned with then pending Campaign
>>>Finance Reform legislation that could have included forcing public license
>>>holders to provide free airtime to candidates than they were about ATSC's
>>>problems.
>>>
>>>They were being told by Zenith, Nxtwave, and others that ATSC's problems
>>>were trivial and solvable, and were being told by Congress that rocking the
>>>DTV boat by petitioning for a change in modulation schemes and delaying the
>>>spectrum auction could result in candidate airtime giveaways.
>>>
>>>As it turned out, the problems weren't so easily fixed, and we probably
>>>would have been further ahead in the transition if the Sinclair petition
>>>were adopted back in 1999-2000. It's sickening to see all the DVB-T
>>>products there are available to the rest of the world, and how few ATSC
>>>products are available to us.
>>>
>>>It will be interesting to see the subscription rates with Crown Castle for
>>>mobile phone TV. And to imagine that we could have been providing content
>>>for no charge to the same DVB-H enabled phones is mind numbing.
>>>
>>>And in the final twist of irony, it appears that with the current Abrahamoff
>>>scandal, there is once again calls for public funding of campaigns, which
>>>will in all likelihood include OTA television stations giving away spots to
>>>qualified candidates. So it may well be that the NAB and MSTV get stuck
>>>with 1) a crippled digital television standard that will never perform as
>>>well as the rest of the world, 2) delays in turning off NTSC, and 3) giving
>>>away political spots for free.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Nat Ostroff" <nostroff@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>>I know that we did have support and I personally appreciated it.
>>>>However, the cards were stacked against us because the NAB and it's
>>>>kissing cousin the MSTV seemed to be the captive of inside the beltway
>>>>Washington interests. At the time it was hard to believe but now, given
>>>>the big buck moves by NEXTELL and Qualcom and others it seems more
>>>>plausable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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