[opendtv] Re: Copps proposes more FCC action
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:27:24 -0700
The "bad system" was NTSC, at least by a decade after adoption. The same
cannot be said for 8-VSB. When you get reception, your picture is perfect
of near-perfect. It has never been that way with NTSC, nor will it ever be
that way.
The ATSC system will be found to serve virtually the same audience as the
NTSC system did the day before. You are actually spinning this one, Cliff.
Half the country's population DOES NOT RELY on ota, even if you include the
number of satellite homes and double the figure.
Set the bar low for that which you favor (NTSC, I suspect) and set it high
for that which you oppose.
The Congress did not foist a broken system on the country; it adopted the
ONLY terrestrial digital TV system that existed at that time. JUST LIKE
NTSC. Oh, that's right -- there was the color wheel system, which had
failed in the marketplace, and which required 3 channels for each station.
Imagine if you had 1/3 the ota channels to watch today.
Time moves on, Cliff. Do you?
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Cliff Benham
Enviado el: Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:31 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Copps proposes more FCC action
Tom Barry wrote:
> Sorry Cliff. I guess my inner troll got the best of me for a moment.
I assure you I'm not upset at you or anyone else on this list.
I'm simply complaining [and will never stop] about the rotten situation
that has existed over DTV in the US since the mid 1990s when a bad
system was foisted on the entire country for political and economic
reasons rather than choosing one that actually works and is capable of
replacing analog NTSC OTA broadcasts on a viewer by viewer basis.
After Feb. 2009, the ATSC system will be found to serve fewer than half
of the country's population [who rely solely on OTA] and it will then
finally be replaced with something that should have been selected early
on based on it's performance merits and not like the system chosen which
was rammed down our throats for reasons of propping up a failing US
television manufacturer that was soon thereafter bought out by an
offshore company anyway, thus making the whole endeavor useless from
start to finish.
Here I can truly say, "Only in America."
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