[opendtv] Re: New transition web site
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 07:37:41 -0500
At 9:34 PM -0500 3/2/07, Albert Manfredi wrote:
Judging from what's been happening since 2002, saying that the
switch to COFDM was just a delaying tactic sounds ever more
plausible. Depending who was doing the asking. Clearly, the industry
as a whole seems to be dragging their feet any way they can, when it
comes to FOTA TV. Whether that was to spend another couple of years
redoing the planning factors for COFDM, or whether that was keeping
the ATSC innovations strictly hidden away from consumers.
Maybe in your world Bert, but not in the competitive world where the
marketplace works.
Can you imagine what could have happened if the FCC HAD allowed
broadcasters to use COFDM modulation?
Imagine that most of the broadcasters would have done nothing, as you
characterized above. But Sinclair, Pappas and others would have
switched to COFDM and created a Freeview-like system, and used their
stations to promote it.
Way too disruptive for the politicians and regulators who are
propping up a system that has 100% clearance for OTA boradcasters and
85% of U.S. homes paying for Free TV.
We can't have no stink'n marketplace, Amigos...
Regards
Craig
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