But according to Bert, as soon as a hard cutoff date is announced LG will open up this huge vault somewhere in South Korea and flood the U.S. market with millions of STBs priced at under $50. Until a hard cutoff date is announced, however, the vault stays locked and the U.S. gets nothing, not at any price. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx> > Barton has now lowered the bar again on the cost of subsidized > set-top boxes, now claiming that they will cost between $35 and $50. > I can assure you that there is NOTHING happening here at NAB to > support this unrealistic assumption. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.