[opendtv] Re: 3D TV market to grow 500% in 2011
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 18:07:52 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> The amount is not relevant. Once again, you are asking the government to
> mandate that we buy something, with NO compelling argument that it is needed.
I'll bet you a ton of money that the clueless were saying the same thing about
UHF receivers in TV sets.
> No Bert, consumers would have had A CHOICE.
No, Craig, consumers did not have a choice. That's the whole point. Their
choice was, either you buy these obsolete ATSC STBs that barely worked, or let
me show you a premium package on cable or DBS. You still don't get it. Or in GM
cars, either you pay the monthly fee for XM radio, or you listen to analog
radio, and by the way you get to pay for the XM radio hardware anyway.
> The Europeans never really embraced capitalism. They traveled the road to
> socialism in the last
> century,
There is some truth to that, granted, but it's not what we are talking about
here. Capitalism does NOT mean that consumers should allow themselves to be
yanked around by the nose by any greedy industry that feels so inclined. To
work well, capitalism requires consumers to educate themselves, not to be
complacent and clueless lemmings.
Bert
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