[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:00:45 -0500
Tom Barry wrote:
>John Shutt wrote:
> >>For that matter, are cheap OTA STB's available in the Korean market?
> >
> >
> > Where do you think most of our STBs have been coming from? Where do you
> > think the companies that Bob Miller has been working with trying to get a
> > prototype that worked as well as the LG 'cold fusion' STB?
>
>Certainly. But what are Koreans buying for their own market? Do they
>also have the same problems or are there different cheap Korean-only
>ATSC boxes that work well enough? Or newer gen boxes that are only sold
>in Korea for instance.
>
>Are Koreans happy with ATSC?
>
>- Tom
>
>
Korean broadcasters were never happy with ATSC. Did their own testing
and protested 8-VSB for eight years. I know that two of them contacted
me for a number of years hoping for help in getting their government to
back off 8-VSB. It thought they would just like Taiwan did. The Korean
public? I don't know and don't know how to find out. I have a nephew
working in Seoul. I will send him an email.
Bob Miller
>
>
>
>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Tom Barry" <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Well, if most stations are not not still at low power then that leaves
>>>only the 2nd half of the CEA's reason for no OTA STB's. That is, there
>>>is only 11% (any x% low number) of TV's using OTA anyway and thus the
>>>CEA members have little interest in bothering with it.
>>>
>>>It is not easy to argue with that one. And there is also no particular
>>>reason to believe it will get any better in the future. However 11% of
>>>all TV's still makes a fairly large number, too large to be sneezed at.
>>>
>>>
>>11% of 102 million television households is still 11 million TVHH. In all
>>of Australia there are about 12 million TVHH. Not OTA only households,
>>total TVHHs.
>>
>>Why can Australia have over 86 different models of HD and SD STBs from 26
>>manufacturers <http://www.dba.org.au/index.asp?sectionID=18> in such a
>>small market? Because boxes designed for Europe can easily and cheaply be
>>adapted to 7 MHz channels. If Australia had an entirely unique modulation
>>and transport stream method, chances are they would not have nearly the
>>number of choices that they do now.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Moving on to conspiracy theories, it would also be interesting to know
>>>if any pressure is being brought on the CE companies by cable or
>>>satellite to stay out of the OTA STB market.
>>>
>>>
>>No such pressure is required. As long as CE maker's manufacturing capacity
>>is being filled with DBS boxes, Digital Cable boxes, and European/Oceania
>>DVB-T boxes, why even bother making ATSC STBs with still unproven
>>technology, high return rates, and low shelf life?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>For that matter, are cheap OTA STB's available in the Korean market?
>>>
>>>
>>Where do you think most of our STBs have been coming from? Where do you
>>think the companies that Bob Miller has been working with trying to get a
>>prototype that worked as well as the LG 'cold fusion' STB?
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>>
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