[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA

Guess we better start driving on the left side of the road too, since
everything done across the Atlantic, by definition, is better than here =
in
the US.

Interesting how California Wines nearly outsell French wines IN FRANCE, =
but
of course, it is the erudite among us that know anything imported is =
better.

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On
Behalf Of John Willkie
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:35 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA

You need to employ's Occams razor.  You've skipped over many more =
logical
reasons to get to what you claim is obvious.

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=20
8vsb STB's or PVR's profitably, since no one seems to be doing it and=20
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=20
happens, but there is no good reason to think it will soon change =
otherwise.

- Tom


Bob Miller wrote:
> Let me add one note.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> They must have the answer that Bert is so baffled about.
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> After all they are at the center of 8-VSB. If they can't make it =
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> John Shutt wrote:
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>>Bert,
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>>Let me walk you through it:
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>>If the US Switched to DVB-T, then all of those boxes made today for =
sale
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>>Australia could be easily modified to work in the US 6 MHz bandwidth =
and=20
>>frequency spacing.  Europe uses 8 MHz and Australia uses 7 MHz, so all
DVB-T=20
>>chipsets sold today worldwide are 6-7-8 MHz capable.  Only the RF =
front
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>>company that actually did make a "worldwide box" that had all three =
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>>From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>>>I am baffled by the implication, yours and others, that
>>>somehow DVB-T would change this state of affairs.
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