[opendtv] Re: 3D TV market to grow 500% in 2011
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 09:57:40 -0400
At 5:47 PM -0400 5/21/11, Albert Manfredi wrote:
Are consumers asked whether they want to pay for 3DTVs? No. The cost
of installing HD Radio, especially in such expensive setups as cars,
is utterly trivial, Craig. It should be standard equipment. What is
the BOM for HD Radio? $1.98?
What's the BOM for a buggy whip?
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.
Thank goodness for that, or consumers would have been totally frozen
out. The Michael Powell FCC had to do for ATSC what the CE companies
managed to figure out on their own for 3D.
No Bert, consumers would have had A CHOICE.
The politicians can still rattle their sabers and place pressure on
an industry, as they are doing now with mobile privacy issues - like
"when are you going to take down those apps that notify people about
DUI checkpoints..."
Maybe I can get a law passed that requires every bar that serves
draft beer in Gainesville to serve Swamp Head...
Government mandates are a major factor in what has destroyed so many
American industries.
Consumers are moving on to a new generation of mobile devices being
driven by competitors to the traditional (Asian) CE industry. They are
leaving 20th century technologies where they belong...in the past
century.
There is some of that going on, but unfortunately, consumers are
continuing to allow themselves to be led around by the nose just as
much as they ever were. Now they are at the mercy of "vertically
integrated" companies dictating fashion, and unnecessarily crippled
"connected TVs" that can easily be rendered useless by the congloms.
Nice try.
It's not about fashion, it is about function. But well run companies
CAN create a buzz for their products. THAT is what marketing is all
about, and it is infinitely more powerful than forcing everyone to
buy something they probably won't use.
Why US consumers are so infinitely more prone to these shenanigans
than their Euro counterparts I just don't know.
The Europeans never really embraced capitalism. They traveled the
road to socialism in the last century, and now many Europeans can't
afford the finer things in life. But take heart, the U.S. is now
racing headlong down that road, and for the first time in my lifetime
the outlook appears very grim.
What does it say, when we have recent UF engineering graduates
willing to work at Swamp Head for minimum wage?
Regards
Craig
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