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

  • From: cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:00:58 +0000

All of this is great, but in every posting one thing is missing:

The name and address of the store that is selling 5th generation 
ATSC receivers today. 

Where are they?


> Tom Barry wrote:
> 
> >Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> >
> > > I suspect that the manufacturers are just going to see how far they
> > > can push this, until the FCC decides to enforce the regulations.
> > > Perhaps by Christmas, as Mark Aitken suggests, we will see more
> > > models with tuners as the next generation chips begin to be available.
> > >
> > > Watching and waiting...
> > >
> >
> >I suspect that a very large consideration by the manufacturers in this 
> >decision is the expected rate of customer returns, and that depends upon 
> >whether the receivers can be expected to work satisfactorily for the 
> >average buyer.
> >
> >With previous generations of chips you might expect buyers to be 
> >disappointed if they tried to them use only a set top antenna. 
> >Supposedly with the new Zenith gen 5 chips this will not be the case, 
> >but we don't really know yet.  And we also do not know how much 
> >Zenith/LG will be charging for those chips.  Is it more?
> >
> >I think the answers to the above might determine what percentage of sets 
> >are just monitors next year, though the push to add cable card support 
> >should also increase the ATSC receiver percentage.
> >
> >BTW, if HDTV's start appearing that really do work with set top 
> >antennas, I wonder if that will increase the return rate of those that 
> >don't since there then will be something to compare.  It could create 
> >some de facto receiver quality standards.
> >
> >- Tom
> >  
> >
> Personally that is what I think will happen. There will be 5th gen 
> receivers and all the rest will be classified as inferior. All pre 5th 
> gen receivers will be devalued to ten cents on the dollar and sold on 
> EBAY to people in Dallas and other flat land cities where they might 
> still find a home.
> 
> The "de facto receiver quality standards" as in all other products is a 
> factor of word of mouth. With the Internet word of mouth is almost 
> instantaneous. When real customers start comparing 5th gen with their 
> fourth gen etc it won't take long. Who will be the early adopters of 5th 
> gen receivers after all? Those who have problems with any current 
> receiver and those with the worst problems first.
> 
> Bob Miller
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