[opendtv] Re: CE manufacturers to hide upgradeable middleware inside sets
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:01:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
I believe the active phrase is "semi-informed dilletante". It's still early
perhaps I misspelled that word. If you just asked questions about what you
knew nothing (like BDA), you could actually graduate to dilletante.
John Willkie
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>From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2008 8:04 AM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: CE manufacturers to hide upgradeable middleware inside
>sets
>
>Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>> As an affirmed laggard who refuses to pay for a subscription
>> TV service, why do/did you give a rats ass about this?
>>
>> And what the hell does this have to do with DVB?
>
>I care about a lot of things.
>
>The intelligent way of incorporating ATSC receivers in all manner of "TV
>appliances" is to integrate that ATSC receiver with all other digital TV
>receivers. Which means, potentially, even an Internet Protocol receiver,
>and certainly a cable and DBS receiver.
>
>A purported advantage of DVB, a few years back, was that the standard
>already included a -C and -S variant, supposedly making such integrated
>rceivers easier to implement. My response at the time was that there
>were and are no insurmountable *technical* problems with creating a US
>version of a combined digital TV receiver standard. The problems had all
>to do with intellectual property and the desire to make things more
>difficult for the consumer.
>
>So, this article simply says that the proof is in the pudding. The
>combined receiver, at least as far as cable and OTA, is indeed upon us,
>and any remaining obstacles *continue* to be non-technical. Only now,
>this should be obvious to everyone.
>
>Bert
>
>
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