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

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 06:17:46 -0400

At 12:47 PM -0400 10/1/04, John Golitsis wrote:
>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.

I guess that YOU are easily confused. I wrote:

>  > 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?

I don't know how much clearer that can be. As you say, it's ALL or NOTHING.

Perhaps you know more than myself about the plans of the CE 
manufacturers. The current reality is that there is no reason NOT to 
include an NTSC tuner in their products. The sticking point comes 
when the mandates require an ATSC tuner, which I believe will also 
mean a cable ready tuner, as you have stated, IF you include ANY 
tuner.

Perhaps I am being overly pessimistic, but I have real doubts that 
the CE industry is just going to byte the bullet and put these tuners 
into every "TV." I expect that they will offer both monitors and TVs.

What is important - something that the CE vendors cannot ignore - is 
what consumers are actually buying, and very few are opting for HD 
displays with integrated ATSC/cable tuners.

Regards
Craig
 
 
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