You're on. I've marked the date. You assert that mobile video will be bigger than dtv/tv/dvds by June 8, 2010. What's your wager? Or, are you chicken-s**t? John (you've really opened your mouth, now, we're talking about North of $80 billion a year) Willkie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: France > John Willkie wrote: > > >Uh, sorry to fart on your parade, but Dan did nothing of the sort. He > >conceded on TV-tech that mobile/portable will never be anything more than a > >niche-like service. That's consistent with my continuously stated > >positions. As for you, Craig; don't give me your opinions on this; answer > >by making that spreadsheet work that I sent to the list years ago. > > > >You won't be able to do so. In this context, make it deliver more than a 1% > >market boost. > > > >John Willkie > > > > > Mobile/portable video will be bigger than living room, home theater > video in five to ten years. At least in most of the world. More people > will spend more time, advertisers will pay more for mobile/portable > video delivered via WiFi, WiMax, satellite and broadcast than that > delivered to fixed receivers in living rooms. IMO. That includes cell > phones but cell phones will be 20% or so and people will not watch more > than a few minutes at a time on cell phones. > > Bob Miller > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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.