[opendtv] Re: Global standard

  • From: "Richard C. Ramsden" <ramsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 00:03:41 -0400

There have been glaring issues with this thread.
I've copied and pasted a few lines with comments:


Anyone care to cite another example of a government mandate of both a
standard and requirement for its implementation in an electronics product
used by most Americans?


60 hz AC power.  Required by law to be exactly 60 Hz.  So electric clocks will 
keep proper time.  Costs the people that generate electricity a fortune to 
maintain this.  Look it up.  The clock manufacturers won out over the power 
companies with their lobbying.

ATSC was not developed to help broadcasters.  8 VSB was a Zenith patent.  It 
was an attempt to protect a US manufacturer.  Too bad they went bankrupt and a 
Korean company bought the assets.


The current U.S. digital television standard was developed as a block
and delay tactic to protect broadcast spectrum. Broadcasters willingly
abdicated responsibility to a more forward thinking standard and allowed
broadcast and consumer electronics manufacturers to define another
proprietary, closed system to sell new equipment and consumer TVs.


ATCS to protect spectrum?  Sorry, that is ludicrous.  The most kind opinion of 
that idea is that it is very naive.  Broadcasters never cared about spectrum 
until a few years ago, when congress found out what it could be sold for.

Rich


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