[opendtv] 3rd periodic review of DTV transition
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:30:33 -0400
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-70A1.pdf
Interesting read. The FCC is asking for comment on the last minute
transition details, such as how stations with DTT assignments that won't
be their final DTT channel should go about migrating to their final
channel. Also asks about allowing stations to end analog service ahead
of schedule, reduce analog power, and so on.
Para. 41: "We believe, however, that Congress' adoption of the hard
deadline of February 17, 2009, now weighs in favor of an increasing
tolerance for the loss of analog service as we near the switchover date
and where it will facilitate the transition."
Para. 46: "If it is necessary for stations to reduce analog service
before the transition to be sure all viewers have digital service on and
after the transition date, we will consider such requests."
Para. 52: "We seek comment on whether and, if so, under what
circumstances we should accept new requests by stations to return their
pre-transition DTV channel before the end of the transition and 'flash
cut' from their analog channel to their post-transition channel (which
must be different from their pre-transition DTV channel)."
Also, they quote OTA TV usage in the US from NAB figures from 2006. We
may have seen these already from the NAB.
Para. 12. They say 19.6M households depend exclusively on OTA TV. That's
about 17.8 percent of households. And these households have 45.5M TV
sets total, and 1.3M digital sets. Which says that as of 2006, 6.6
percent of OTA households had converted to DTT. And that and additional
23.5M sets in cable/DBS homes use only OTA signals. So this sums up to
69M sets that use only OTA signals.
Then there are the OTA/DBS and maybe soon OTA/cable combinations, not
mentioned in the NPRM. And that was before the 1 March 2007 date, so
things might have changed by now.
Bert
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