[opendtv] Re: Six years on
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:19:29 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Bob Miller wrote:
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>>The fact that the receivers work plug and play is also
>>a cost point. The "cost" of frustration with poor
>>reception or the hassle factor may be the biggest cost
>>component of 8-VSB's failure in the US.
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>I certainly wouldn't rule that out as one component. But
>it's not clear that it's the primary component.
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>>At the same sales rate being experienced in the UK the
>>US would have 36 million COFDM receivers sold over just
>>the last two years.
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>The question is, why is the UK different from Germany?
>Why did the Berlin OTA viewers wait until their OTA analog
>options died before going to DTT?
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Without doing any in depth investigating I think you might be reading
too much into your graph. There was some availability of receiver issues
that might account for a dip. I think the UK and Germany are more alike
than different. I don't have recent figures but the last time I checked
they had similar penetrations. Italy may be more like what will happen
in the US with their subsidy.
>One factor might be the usage of cable in Germany and in
>the US. People who really want the greater choice had
>already migrated to cable. Perhaps not true in the UK.
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>Also, what's the percentage of HDTV DBS subscribers who
>get most or all of their HDTV via ATSC today?
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>Bert
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