[opendtv] Re: 20050926 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:34:08 +0000
> 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.
>
Ha!
Because it wouldn't work at all otherwise?
I also remember reading the description of that demo on this list
and how the ATSC antenna was "TAPED DOWN" so it could not
be moved from the window sill.
However, during the COFDM portion of the demo their antenna
was picked up by someone and hand carried around the room
with no interruption or interference to the screen image by
freezing or breakup.
Need we any further clues?
> > 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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