That's another absurd statement, Craig. Half the viewing of the "500-channel" cable universe is of over the air channels. Oh, your "hang-out" is that this not OTA viewing. So, f---- what? People do not watch technology, they watch content, and half the viewing of cable systems if of 5-6 OTA channels. The rest of the market watches OTA exclusively. Broadcast has more than half of the viewership. It's time for you to move on from this absurd "I'll take any idiotic position if I can use it to attack broadcasting and broadcasters" stance. You think that cable competes with broadcasting. Another absurdity, at least until cable starts to produce watchable programming. It's like saying that a paving contractor competes with car makers like Toyota, and that should team up and compete with petrol marketers. John Willkie -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Craig Birkmaier Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 6:39 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: PR: Majority of New HDTVs Powered By ATI At 5:18 PM -0600 11/10/04, Doug McDonald wrote: >This is absurd. Lots of people already have DTV sets ... they >work fine, 5th gen or not. It's time to put to rest the expereinces >of a very few people in few blue cities. Most of the USA >is red, very red ... and in most of those places DTV >just works. It certainly just works around here ... as long as there is enough transmitter power. Even if Doug is correct about ATSC tuners working, this is orthogonal to the discussion. The fact remains that 85% of the public has moved on and has little if any interest in using the OTA service. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.