[opendtv] Re: Zenith box at Radio Shack

The NTIA has said that they will not send out coupons to a zip code until STBs are generally available in that area. I suppose that is part of being a 'certified' retailer, you report your inventory to the NTIA.
I simply cannot believe the NTIA's justification for not mandating either a bypass switch or an integrated NTSC tuner in these boxes. The NTIA claims that doing so would lower sensitivity of the receiver by 3 dB and raise costs of the CECBs, but an RF bypass switch would not lower receiver sensitivity (only an RF splitter would,) and VCRs have had them built in for decades so I doubt that it would increase costs by very much.
That is a stupid government committee decision. However, non-governmental committees also make stupid decisions, such as the ATSC's original decision not to make multiple audio stream decoding/mixing a mandatory feature, thereby effectively killing the idea of sending a M/E and separate language Dialog channels, or voiceover audio, or EAS audio. As the ATSC rules now state, a receiver must switch to an audio stream when it is flagged as an E stream type, but it also states elsewhere that the CM stream must also include any emergency audio information. Huh? 

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx> 



Stand corrected but why do they have a 90 day limit on the coupons. Many
will expire before some of the receivers with NTSC are available. Maybe they 
could  buy them now and take deliver later. Just typical of a government
committee run type program.






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