[opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...
- From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:05:16 -0400
> Sirius and XM both will offer video as part of it's satellite audio
service
'Will' is the operative word.
> to the US market. I presume Crown Castle will at least consider mobile
> receivers for their nationwide DVB-H service when they build it out.
'Consider' is far removed from 'Will'.
> Mercedes in Europe already offer DVB-T reception as an option in select
> models.
Thats fantastic - however Europe is not the USA.
> The only vaporware is Gen X.
Is it any more vaporware in the US marketplace than what you just listed
above?
> BTW, markets seldom begin at the bottom of the price scale. But with DVD
> players more and more popular in US Land Yachts (standard in some!), a
> working mobile DTT system could have been interesting.
KVH has been testing this Directv to cars market for... almost 5 years.
BTW How expensive is it to get a DVB-T video system in your car? Stuff
like a Revo DAB receiver is still around 199 UK pounds.
Cheers
Kon
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