-----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:13 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: New transition web site Cliff Benham wrote: > The complaints I have made so far will be nothing compared to > what the FCC and the broadcasters will get when the world > discovers the sham that is ATSC. Mark well my words. I'll be > there to remind you. Bert wrote: Compared to what? Compared to anyone else here in the US who will *have* to use ATSC to receive free OTA TV. In a recent post to the list I read that ATSC will provide coverage for 90% of the viewers, just as analog NTSC does. But the telling statement that followed this claim was that it would not be the same 90%. That says it all. ATSC is unreliable. Sometimes it works, like when the sky is clear and the sun is shining, but not when the weather is bad, which is when good reception might be needed to get an emergency warning. It's like the old joke about what driving would be like if Microslop built cars: "Sometimes, without warning, while driving your car it would just stop. You would have to shut it down completely and restart it to be able to drive on, and somehow you would accept this as normal." You must think that missing parts of the ATSC broadcast is OK, that pictures freezing and sound stuttering are things we will all learn to accept as normal operation. Horse Pucky. ATSC is a failed technology that does not and cannot reliably replace analog NTSC broadcasting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.