[opendtv] Re: Comment on Mark's Memo
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:17:17 -0800
I disagree as to your final point Craig. While mobile is lacking in the US
DTV standard -- by design and regulatory intention, if limited nowhere
else -- we certainly have portable.
And, since cable cannot offer mobile and has serious difficulty with
portable -- a few decades back, I accomplished this with a 100-foot cable
"extension cord" -- portable and mobile could be used to compete with cable,
but I think that we have to concede that they are quite different "service
portfolios."
John Willkie
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Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:33 AM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Comment on Mark's Memo
At 11:57 PM +0000 11/4/04, Alan Roberts wrote:
>In this context, mobile means not fixed. It means tv sets that are not
wired
>into a system, portables, small ones, bedroom sets, kitchen sets. Don't get
>hung up on the idea that a mobile set *has* to be moving around all the
>time. It simply means a set not plugged into a distribution system, a set
>that gets its own signal from an aerial. And I think that describes over
90%
>of tv sets in the UK, not sure of continental figures.
I'll give the nod to John on the difference between mobility and
portability.
Unfortunately, we have NEITHER, with the U.S. DTV standard.
Regards
Craig
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