[opendtv] Re: Fw: Re: Post on alt.tv.tech.hdtv of interest today
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:00:33 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Frank Eory wrote:
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>>I believe that a "multiple markets" product strategy that
>>is fundamentally based on one product (save software
>>differences and minor hardware differences) would make
>>financial sense. "Piggy backing" the R&D into volume sales
>>is everything.
>>
>>
>
>Yes, this would be the ideal. But we all know that when it
>comes to TV in general, people seem to completely lose their
>common sense. Creating different standards around the world
>becomes their passion. It's always been that way. NTSC, PAL,
>SECAM, and all manner of variations of *each* of these, and
>look at the madness that was created with DVD regions.
>
>And if anything, things are getting worse rather than better.
>Digital radio seems to be headed in the same direction. So I
>really fail to see why we should suddenly become so indignant
>about this one modulation difference. (Not saying you're one
>of those who is becoming indignant.)
>
>
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>>A single TV broadcaster -- even with multicasting -- cannot
>>offer real competition to the cable/DBS multichannel
>>packages.
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>I agree that the multichannel providers are not seriously
>threatened by OTA in the US, or in Germany and the Benelux
>countries, for that matter. However, as long as the govt has
>a policy of retaining FTA TV, and a policy of freeing up some
>RF spectrum, implementing a viable transition policy makes
>sense. Besides which, the 15+ percent of households relying
>on OTA might increase somewhat with DTT, as it apparently did
>in Berlin, and that 15+ percent is still a reasonably large
>number of households.
>
>Bert
>
Not as it did in Berlin, as it is doing in Berlin. You use the facts of
Berlin as if there was a bulge of orders and then it was all over.
Berlin will continue to be successful with OTA and the rest of Germany,
Italy, France and others will join the fray. Before it is over OTA will
be a major competitor of cable and satellite all over Europe. Italy is
so successful that they plan on an analog cut off in 2006. This is
because of the success of OTA not to drive it. Same in Berlin, the
success of OTA initially allowed them to proceed with their plan to turn
off analog in the first year. You make is sound as if the turn off of
analog was the reason they were successful. All the turnoff date did was
create a bulge in purchasing for what would have been very successful
anyway.
Bob Miller
Bob Miller
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