[opendtv] Re: HDTV-Brochure_2005final
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:20:20 -0800
Bob Miller wrote:
> The DVB Group said their hands were tied by their CEA members.
My point exactly - from the previous post on this subject. This is another
example of their efforts to marginalize US broadcasting. Unfortunately
they've been mostly successful.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:14 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: HDTV-Brochure_2005final
> Hey I am kidding. I had a smiley at the end of that post. :-)
>
> "calculated" meaning you would have had to or wanted to go to a more
> robust mode for the Mediascreen?
>
> At the time I WAS disappointed that you didn't bring on the Mediascreen.
> The Mediascreen had starred at the NAB show just months before the
> hearings. I thought it was an ace you should play. Always will wonder
> of any of many "one more things" could have been done by a lot of people
> and entities that would have tipped the balance. You guys were the best.
>
> Nokia sent a letter.
> Pace spoke too softly.
> The DVB Group said their hands were tied by their CEA members.
> Engineers at various entities said they would lose sales if they spoke up.
> People were trusted to be at least professional who were not.
>
> Sinclair took all the arrows.
>
> Bob Miller
>
> Mark Aitken wrote:
>
>>Wha, wha, wha...Bob, stop whining....
>>Why is it that it seems NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, what does not happen is
>>OUR fault?!?! I guess portable (as in walking and receiving) HDTV was
>>not good enuf? BTW, it was not refusal...it was calculated...it provided
>>a rather significant juxtaposition to the requirement of an antenna
>>taped/cemented/fixed in location. Remember the pictures???
>>
>>
>>Bob Miller wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Please do not take this personally. If all=20
>>>>broadcasters were as forward thinking as Sinclair=20
>>>>we might not be in this mess. You know ALL too=20
>>>>well what happens when Sinclair tries to be=20
>>>>innovative...
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Craig
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Actually its all Sinclair's fault because at the Congressional hearings
>>>in 2000 they refused to show the Nokia Mediascreen which would have
>>>demonstrated mobile reception of COFDM definitively and forced the
>>>issue. :-)
>>>
>>>Bob Miller
>>>
>>
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