[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:50:58 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
If Bob Miller were not 1) a resident of the US or 2) not married to the idea of
DVB at any cost in the US, we WOULD not have these non-sensical posts.
DVB-T was created without any regard for the needs, desires, operating
fundamentals or realities of U.S. broadcasting, and commercial broadcasting in
general. To say that it would have been adopted in the U.S. IN ANY form is to
say "John Kerry is President of the United States and everything is fine,
especially with vice president Osama bin Laden."
COFDM is another matter, but this is bob vainly trying to get the upper hand by
going downstream to DVB-T. Australia -- with several commercial broadcasters
-- had to get significant changes in the DVB spec before it was usable there.
John Willkie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Miller
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 6:29 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
>
> If broadcasters were not married to must carry there would be
> no 8-VSB modulation in the US and we WOULD have adopted DVB-T.
>
> None of these issues would be discussed at all.
>
> Bob Miller
>
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> >I'd find this so blatantly anti-competitive that I'm wondering why
> >we've been debating about must-carry or the effect of
> adopting DVB-T.
> >These other factors would fade into insignificance if the
> market were
> >so badly skewed.
> >
> >By the way, my brother reports that it's easy to find DVB-T STBs for
> >sale in Rome, even though DTT there is not quite fully deployed yet.
> >Not all multiplexes are being transmitted by each translator
> site as of
> >now.
> >
> >Here's another little tid bit. I was at Myer Emco last
> Saturday. These
> >are relatively high end audio/video stores.
> >I asked whether they carried any ATSC STBs.
> >
> >Bert
> >
>
>
>
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