the market for mobile video in cars is the backseat. 98+ of cars on the road have one occupant. 99+ percent have two or fewer occupants. the market for portable video in cars is campers, trailers and mobile homes. The Escalade comes into this market from the bottom; "you don't need to buy a mobile home to have portable -- not mobile -- video. The play here is the residuals that DirecTV resellers (in this case, GM or the car dealer) gets from DirecTV. They continue for some time ... John Willkie ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless... > Sirius and XM both will offer video as part of it's satellite audio service > 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. > Mercedes in Europe already offer DVB-T reception as an option in select > models. > > The only vaporware is Gen X. > > John > > 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. > > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Indeed. But anything abstracted to the extent at which this conversation > > is headed is for lack of a better term far-fetched. Is there any other > > vaporware and/or clutching for straws in the US mobile delivery > > marketplace you want to bring up? Maybe santa claws and flying piglets? > > ;-) > > > > Cheers > > Kon > > > > BTW KVH is not in the mass consumer low-price-point market. Funny how > > no-one mentions that important fact... > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.