At 1:43 PM -0700 6/27/07, johnwillkie wrote:
That's not the case now. We were talking the other day about the ATSC mobile proposals. He mentioned that the timing might be about right, since "DVB-M/H is dead." "What about all the trials: Paris, UK?" He also mentioned the Italian trials. "All the trials are over," he said, and "nobody is buying any gear." There is no action, no inquiries, nothing. By the way, he wasn't speaking of just his own sales and inquiries. So, bob, you've now gone from beating a "foreign" horse to beating a dead foreign horse.
Did yo ever consider the reality that European broadcasters do not need DVB M/H? Our freinds across the pond don;t have to do a thing to reach mobile/handheld with DVB-T. More likely however, the move in this direction will occur after the switch to 8K carriers and other system updates...
And while there seems to be some excitement here about ATSC mobile, the trade-offs are significantly worse for U.S. broadcasters, who will need to rob the main channels of bits that are badly needed for all of those MPEG-2 based legacy receivers mandated by the FCC.
Then again, given all the noise about the iPhone only working with a slow AT&T data network, it becomes obvious that WiFi has the potential to undermine the cellular industry if sufficient spectrum can be dedicated to it.
Who needs dedicated telephone and TV distribution networks, if you can get everything you want and more from the local cloud of bits?
This leads one to conjecture that the telcos will buy all of the 700 MHz spectrum at auction and the broadcasters will do whatever is needed to prevent their spectrum from being used efficiently - i.e. the ability to use the white spaces for pervasive wireless data networking.
The French Revolution updated. Let them eat our bits! Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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