[opendtv] Re: 3rd periodic review of DTV transition
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:13:55 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am not saying these figures are incorrect, however, have a
> healthy level of skepticism about them. The FCC does not
> have the resources to determine these figures. They depend
> on third parties with "agendas" to provide the data.
Point taken. And yes, I always have a healthy level of skepticism.
In this case, though, they say that there are 2.3 TVs per OTA household.
Which seems reasonable enough. (For example, we have 2 TVs and a small
portable 4" job, which I will readily count as 0.3 of a TV.)
I don't find it hard to believe that most households have more than one
TV, in a country of 300M people and 110M households (i.e. where most
households consist of more than just one single guy or girl).
Bert
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