[opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400

  • From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:47:20 -0400

Craig, I honestly don't know whether you just confuse yourself, or whether you 
intentionally twist a conversation in any way necessary to support your point. 
Either way, it's incredibly frustrating...like talking to a brick wall.

The tuner mandate will eventually require either NO tuner of any sort, or an 
ATSC tuner at a minimum.  So far, under the current requirements of the tuner 
mandate, there are numerous ATSC *and* CableCARD sets on the docket, while 
there 
are ZERO tuner-less models that I know of.  If you have information on such 
models, I'd love to know what they are.  And we're talking about models sold by 
the manufacturer as 'television' displays.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400


> At 11:04 AM -0400 9/30/04, John Golitsis wrote:
>>  >From what you are seeing?  What ARE you seeing???  There are ZERO 
>> tuner-less
>>models on the market today!
>
> That's absurd. There are a large number of monitors on the market
> today. This is especially true for plasma and LCD (direct view).
>
> But most sets today DO include an NTSC/analog cable ready tuner. The
> real question is whether the CE manufacturers will drop the NTSC
> tuners and sell pure monitors, or byte the bullet and include the
> full tuner assortment?
>
>>
>>>From what I am seeing - backed up by FACT - ATSC tuner models are outselling
>>tuner-less 'monitors" by a ratio of 1 to 0!
>
>
> I would say that you have it backwards. HD displays with integrated
> digital tuners are selling very slowly. People are buying HD ready
> sets with analog tuners by a factor of 10:1 over sets with digital
> tuners.

 
 
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