This is as I reported from Australia in November. IMO, Ciril's report is correct in all areas. >-----Original Message----- >From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ciril Kosorok >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 5:01 AM >To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia > > >In Australian TV retail land, it's impossible to miss DVB-T products from >name & no-name brand manufacturers at many different price points offering >iDTV's, STB's and PVR's. This alone is sending a strong message to >prospective consumers; Digital TV is here and you can buy with confidence. > >Also, name brand suppliers are rapidly abandoning SD/HD STB's in favour of >fully integrated SD/HD DTV products, which from a retailer >perspective is a >much easier sell. And all this without a tuner mandate! > >Therefore, IMO, a robust modulation scheme is a pre-requisite to ensure >market success. If DTV reception were crap, retailers would not carry DTV >products and CE manufactures would not invest in DTV R&D, as angry >customers >are the last thing retailers & manufacturers want or need!!! > >DTV engineers also understand very well the various DTV modulation >schemes, >their weaknesses and strengths. If the US modulation scheme was as good as >many claim it to be, those same Australian suppliers would be over there >'like Flynn', plying their wares to US consumers even if only 10% of US >households needed DTV OTA products, as this is still greater market than >Australia's 7 million OTA households! > >I'm currently in the process of building a Media Centre PC on which I will >store our entire audio CD collection in WMA Lossless format. As >part of this >process I also need a family friendly media centre GUI and currently I'm >evaluating MediaPortal; an open source program. What really caught my eye >was its ATSC and DVB tuner card support; >http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/Supported_TVCards . Number of supported >DVB-T products = 80; ATSC = 14, and yes my DVB-T PCI card (Nebula) >is on the >list! Enough said. > >Ciril Kosorok >Sydney - AUSTRALIA > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 6:03 AM >Subject: [opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia > > >> In absolute number of OTA only viewers, who has more, Australia >or the US? >> >> John >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> If we had OTA viewership here, we too would have had 80 brands of STB. >>> Instead, we have a population that forgot about OTA TV more than two >>> decades ago. Only satisfied with 150 TV channels. >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.