[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA
- From: "Tony Neece" <tonyneece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 02:22:18 -0700
>Why is it the responsibility of receiver manufacturers to provide a=20
>product that consumers have shown no interest in? The vast majority=20
>of consumers have no reason to own such a box.
Now if that were really true, then it follows that there was no need for =
the
digital transition at all. Then broadcasters should never have been =
allowed
spectrum for digital transmission at all and all OTA transmission should
have been shut off as soon as most people had access to either cable or
satellite. =20
>......., it is by choice, not because it is difficult to=20
>connect these sets to cable. IF NTSC broadcasts end, and cable still=20
>delivers analog programming it will be a trivial matter to connect=20
>legacy sets to cable if it is already comiing into the home.
Not necessarily so. It can be quite a project to unobtrusively run coax
about the home. DirectTV charges an additional fee for each additional =
STB.
Doesn't cable also do that?=20
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