So 3% OTA DTV and 3% analog? LPTV stations may be simulcasting DTV stations in analog. Could be significant in some big cities. Bob Miller On 6/29/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll only venture on totally rely on. But I'd probably guess about 6%, including all OTA, digital or no, by 2010. I'm also guessing no consensus can be reached on whose numbers to accept. Maybe we can average a bunch of numbers nobody agrees on and then pro-rate a percentage rise or fall from there. ;-) - Tom Bob Miller wrote: > Who would decide what the number was one year after transition? You > have at least a dozen numbers for what OTA is today. We know that most > analog goes away in early 2009 but not all. So we should restrict it > to DTV OTA. > > Should be a pretty good read on the number of converters sold and we > can be pretty sure that their buyers will at least try them. > > Maybe we should just pick a research house that we all can agree on > and say that their first survey that covers that first year will be > the number and that number will be the number of households that they > say rely on DTV OTA, one answer, or have at least one set that has OTA > DTV capability and is used at least some specific minimum amount of > time, second answer. > > Two different picks, one for OTA DTV only households and one for > households with at least one USED OTA DTV receiver. Having one in the > garage for emergencies that no one uses for anything else would not > count. > > I will go with 3% for rely on and 6% for total number of households > that have at least one receiver that is actually used some minimum > amount of time for OTA DTV. Say 10 hours a week. > > I will probably be high on both counts. I am an eternal optimist. > . > Bob Miller > > > > > On 6/28/07, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One of the nice things about the USB receivers is that using a laptop >> you can record what you got, breakups and all. So a single individual >> could go to one of those locations and record 10 minutes or so to show >> quality was good with few breakups, or not. >> >> Having done that, try changing channels without antenna fiddling and >> show the results of that also. >> >> But it might be a useful experiment. >> >> - Tom >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > -- Tom Barry trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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