[opendtv] Re: 20050926 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:21:36 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> A reliable source in the Nation's capital informs
> me that he has one of these new ATSC STB's, and
> that it works fine
Always good to hear. The question remains why they
used the window placement for the antenna, in the
demo to Congress.
> Without a huge order subsidized by the U.S.
> treasury, it would appear that there is no
> incentive to bring these boxes to market.
Disagree.
Without an attractive DTT program package, *and/or*
without an analog cutoff date set, there wouldn't
be a lot of incentive.
With either or both of those, the incentive is a
market for STBs that is a lot bigger than the UK
market has been to date. That should be plenty of
incentive. We are talking in the neighborhood of
40 million STBs, give or take (that's 22 million
households each with 2 TVs, not to mention the
recording devices they also might have).
Bert
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