[opendtv] Re: Fewer than 2 Million have OTA DTV in US
- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:17:36 -0500
Tom Barry wrote:
You should more think the burden is on those who believe that LG had
something economically feasible when it demonstrated the cold fusion
box.
And no, I don't know the reason either, but I assume it is not
economically desirable for LG to put those boxes on the market.
Call it cold fusion or whatever, apparently perfectly adequate and low cost
5th gen LG based PC cards have been marketed, so it does not seem like any
leap of faith to think that LG could have packaged similar electronics in an
updated version of their then-existing 3rd gen STBs and PVRs. That's all I'm
saying. This idea that cost is an issue just doesn't hold any water.
If these devices are capable of receiving Baltimore stations from around
these parts, reliably, with indoor antennas exclusively, as reported, they
are good enough for a very large chunk of the OTA viewership. Which the 3rd
gen devices were not. Even if these are not at the level of the prototype
box tested in Mark's apartment.
March 2007 is drawing close. Let's see what happens to the many, many NTSC
DVDRs currently on the market. If history is our guide, they will disappear
to be replaced by nothing at all. And people will still be talking about
cold fusion, even though there's perfectly functional and low cost ATSC
receivers out there now, and a market for OTA/cable devices. (Or the DVDRs
wouldn't be on shelves now, would they.)
Bert
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