Early adopters would rend their clothing and lay down in front of SUV's full of shoppers at Best Buy stores across the nation trying to stop the hoards of shoppers trying to buy receivers to get the service. Bob Miller John Golitsis wrote: >BAH! Reality called and it wants you to check in with it! > >Early adopters bought their receivers for HDTV. If broadcasters were to offer >a >service like Freeview, they would take their receivers and shove them down the >throats of the broadcasters! > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx> > > >>If broadcasters were to offer a service like Freeview, that is easy >>to install, easy to receive and FREE, I suspect that the early >>adopters of ATSC would be the first in line to BUY new receivers. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.