[opendtv] Re: Sony U.S execs: Expect a robust holiday season

Craig Birkmaier wrote:

>At 2:22 PM -0500 11/21/05, Bob Miller wrote:
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>>Richard Hollandsworth wrote:
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>>>For the UBBER-TVER who can't get by with simple indoor antennas, 
>>>wouldn't Cable or SAT make more sense????
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>>Cable and satellite cost money. There is not excuse for any citizen to
>>be denied the use of there OTA DTV spectrum and free TV when there is a
>>modulation that would have no trouble delivering it.
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>>A better modulation is what would make "more sense".
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>So when did "Free TV" become a citizen's right?
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>Telephone service costs money too. Where is my free phone service?
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>Regards
>Craig
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Skype

At least free in the same sense as OTA TV is free. Yes you have to have 
broadband but if you have it Skype is a free additional service.

Free TV became a citizens right when their elected representatives 
decided that the US republic owned the airwaves and that therefore the 
citizens owned the airwaves and that they would allow broadcasters to 
use that public spectrum to broadcast what has come to be called "Free 
TV". If and when those citizens determine that they are getting screwed 
they will rise up and take that spectrum away from those that occupy it now.

If the pot gets much hotter in DC almost anything is possible however 
unlikely.

Bob Miller

 From Skype's site....

"I'm the Senior Engineer/Technical Director for the BBC World Service 
Bureau in Boston MA USA. We (the BBC) have reporters and producers all 
over the world, and maintaining cost-efficient contact with them is a 
matter of great priority. Skype is proving to be a big help in that 
regard, but that's not the news I wanted to share. About three weeks ago 
we were trying to do an interview with a reporter in Baghdad but were 
unable to establish a connection via our usual comms links (BBC VPN, 
NERA satphone, landline, mobile. . .). So I had him initiate a SkypeOut 
call to us, and it worked really well. The sound got a little watery 
after it hit our local PBX, but it was usable -- and we aired it! To 
180+ public radio stations in the US, and almost 2.5 million listeners 
nationwide! VERY COOL! So now I'm trying to proliferate Skype as widely 
as possible in our broadcast operations. I'm putting Digidesign MBox 
A/Ds on each end in an effort to up the quality, and we intend to use 
this as much as possible.
Anyway: sorry I'm in verbose mode, but I'm really excited about this. 
Any other broadcasters out there? We may not have been the first 
(although I haven't heard about any others), but I think we are cerainly 
among the earliest adopters."

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