At 2:30 PM -0800 3/1/05, Mitch Cardwell wrote: >Because Craig you keep thinking that we can shut off one system and >fire up another with no transition. At least the radio transition >doesn't take any additional spectrum. Excuse me? What radio transition? They are ADDING a new service that requires a new receiver. Do you seriously believe that the radio broadcasters will turn off analog services so that they can obsolete hundreds of millions of working radios to offer more digital radio channels? I'm willing to bet that the take-up rate for broadcast digital radio will be a tiny fraction of that for Serius and XM. If we had a unified digital broadcast service in the TV spectrum it would give people good reasons to buy receivers, and we might actually be able to turn off analog radio some day. Radio is under little pressure since they only use a tiny fraction of the bandwidth used by TV broadcasters. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.