Bob Miller wrote: >> Concur 100 percent. Offering more than analog OTA had been >> offering seems important also in France and Germany. > > And it would have been offered ala USDTV ventures in 2001 > if COFDM had been allowed. And it will be offered when and > if there is a solid receiver. From your repeated mention of USDTV and mobile service, I conclude that you're assuming, like Craig, that you need a drastic change to save OTA. Like portable service, including service to cell phones? To me, that doesn't save OTA TV. It destroys it, and replaces it with a much more special-purpose video service. Instead, the lesson of Freeview in other countries is that many people are interested in real DTT *if* the service is free. Perhaps this additional service you talk about, like Vcast or whatever, can also succeed, I don't know. Video clips for those with attention deficit disorder is hardly something I'd look forward to. Oh, and by the way, it'll be fun to make ATSC work for mobile environments. > We assume they will cost too much and they definitely don't > exist. So that is why nothing is happening. So call LG and > ask them why. First, I don't believe that assumption (they cost too much) to be correct. Secondly, LG would just as happily give me a song and dance as they have been giving you. Let's just assume for an instant that they really do get some sort of continuing revenue for every DBS box they sell. Do you really think they would explain to a perfect stranger that this is the reason they want to coerce people into DBS rather than ATSC? But I'm hopeful. There are enough companies working on this, and the 2009 date has been set (we hope) for analog switchoff, that someone will come through. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.