[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA


John Willkie wrote:
> You need to employ's Occams razor.  You've skipped over many more logical
> reasons to get to what you claim is obvious.
>
I did not give any reasons, only made an observation I think is fairly 
hard to challenge.  CE companies are very obviously NOT marketing 8vsb 
STB's.

Do you really believe CE companies CURRENTLY feel it is economically a 
good idea for them to produce 8vsb STB's but for some reason are still 
not doing it?

- Tom



> John Willkie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Tom Barry
> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:53 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA
> 
> I think it is fairly obvious by now that no company feels they can make 
> 8vsb STB's or PVR's profitably, since no one seems to be doing it and 
> any possible start-up time has long since passed.  Mark's Memo this week 
> could find NO advertisements for same.
> 
> This may hopefully change after a forced transition, if that ever 
> happens, but there is no good reason to think it will soon change otherwise.
> 
> - Tom
> 
> 
> Bob Miller wrote:
> 
>>Let me add one note.
>>
>>If the US switched to DVB-T, presumably LG would be able to make DVB-T 
>>receivers profitably for the US market. Something they say they cannot 
>>do now with 8-VSB.
>>
>>They can do it now in OZ which is only 1/16 the size of the US. So the 
>>US would be a slam dunk.
>>
>>They must have the answer that Bert is so baffled about.
>>
>>After all they are at the center of 8-VSB. If they can't make it happen 
>>who can?
>>
>>Bob Miller
>>
>>John Shutt wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Bert,
>>>
>>>Let me walk you through it:
>>>
>>>If the US Switched to DVB-T, then all of those boxes made today for sale
> 
> in 
> 
>>>Australia could be easily modified to work in the US 6 MHz bandwidth and 
>>>frequency spacing.  Europe uses 8 MHz and Australia uses 7 MHz, so all
> 
> DVB-T 
> 
>>>chipsets sold today worldwide are 6-7-8 MHz capable.  Only the RF front
> 
> end 
> 
>>>needs to be tweaked for the appropriate bandwidth.  (And I recall one 
>>>company that actually did make a "worldwide box" that had all three front 
>>>ends included.)
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am baffled by the implication, yours and others, that
>>>>somehow DVB-T would change this state of affairs.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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