[opendtv] Re: Mobile DTV test

Frank Eory wrote:

> Then what? Then broadcasters can address the issue of why=20
> thier OTA audience has shrunk so much, once they can no=20
> longer point to reception issues as a contributing factor.=20
> It's always about broadcasters' interests, isn't it? What=20
> about consumers' interests? What about the fact that 99% of=20
> consumers won't want to pay diddly for this technology that=20
> most of them will never use.

Surely it's not close to that bad, Frank.

As of now, I guess we never get a good idea what the
percentages are, but they are closer to 50 percent that use
OTA NTSC overall? At least some of the time. And if this
50 percent is made up largely of small sets in the kitchen
or spare bedroom, then those sets will need decent ATSC
tuners too. This might not happen at first, but that's
where ATSC *should* expect to go, in due course.

Also, many will use the tuner if it means they can dispense
of their cable STB.

I agree that broadcasters can help a lot, by using ATSC to
revive their OTA offerings, as Germany and the UK have shown
can be done.

> You will get what the=20
> market will bear, not what the best engineering science=20
> projects can create.

Over the years, haven't NTSC tuners gone through the same
evolution? They became a commodity item, all adequately
good.

Bert
 
 
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