No Bert, Unfortunately you don't understand the dynamics. We have been waiting in the United States since 1999 for a working receiver. We still don't have one on the market. COFDM would have changed that dynamic 6 years ago. The only analogy one can draw with UHF and US DTV is the tuner mandate. That isn't causing a demand, that's forcing supply. A supply of marginal or worse receivers, that will forever sour the consumer's experience with OTA DTV and put an even quicker end to the value of a broadcast license. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> > No vault involved, John. You aren't getting the dynamics. > > Without a hard cutoff date, LG (and others) don't see any > market. So they produce nothing new at all. They figure > there's already an OTA scheme that works fine for > broadcasters and for most OTA users, and it's called NTSC. > > With a cutoff date, there will be demand no matter whether > broadcasters make their DTT offerings more attractive than > their analog stuff or not. Just keep on keeping on, and a > date certain will create a huge demand for STBs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.