[opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...

  • From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:53:45 -0400

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.


 
 
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