[opendtv] Re: Scrap OTA?
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:14:40 -0500
Cable connections and municipal water fail in hurricanes. Trees are
uprooted tearing up buried cables and pipes. When electric power is
restored, its rabbit ears for TV.
Al Limberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Scrap OTA?
>
>
> dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I'm not serious about suggesting we should scrap OTA broadcasts.
Remember,
> >I am one of the millions who's primary source of media is OTA (well, not
> >really my primary source, but I do watch some OTA programming). But the
> >way some speak on this forum, it sounds like OTA is a dying transport
> >format and it wouldn't hurt anyone if it just went away.
> >
> >But if the same channels were offered for free over CATV, I would be
> >willing to get them off CATV (although I would prefer DBS). That would
> >free up a lot of OTA spectrum.
> >
> >
>
> It frees up spectrum only if you assume the purpose of OTA TV is to get
> TV to your house.
>
> My sister-in-law lives in the Colorado Rockies about 50 miles from the
> nearest supermarket, with no cable-TV in sight. Her husband watches OTA
> TV. Satellite? Not if you're on the wrong side of the mountain. Free
> cable won't help him.
>
> A good friend goes camping with a battery-operated TV. Free cable won't
> help him.
>
> When my cable service dies, I connect my rabbit ears. Free cable won't
> help that, either.
>
> The telephone was reportedly pooh-poohed as a business tool because
> businesses had messengers. Sure enough, messengers can do some of what
> a telephone can do. And free cable can do some of what OTA broadcasting
> can do.
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
>
>
>
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