[opendtv] Re: Disney Suspends Video-On-Demand Trial
- From: "Mark A. Aitken (Webmail)" <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:38:55 -0400 (EDT)
or C) As I recall, it is not compatable with all transmitter configurations.
Certainly not a pulsed system...
BTW... Why NTSC? Isn't NTSC shutting down the end of next year?
VBG
Quoting John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Disney's business model was to install a Dotcast modulator at every PBS
> affiliate. We had a couple of surveys to determine what equipment they
> would need to provide for our particular transmitter.
> Disney must have finally found out that A) their service was way
> overpriced
> for the number of movies they could deliver (espeically when compared to
> a
> DVD service like NetFlix), and B) maybe Congress and the FCC were
> serious
> after all about eventually shutting down NTSC.
Regards,
Mark A. Aitken
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