[opendtv] He was hanged yet he survived but why others willl now tend to the US broadcasters garden
- From: Dermot Nolan <dermot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv [opendtv]" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:59:45 +0100 (CET)
Its almost too tragic to contemplate the fate of US OTA TV: the wrong system
was chosen, the wrong business model, and Nat Ostroff's comments about hanging
caused me to think of the fate of Candide and Dr Pangloss all those centuries
ago.
Meantime COFDM = Creating Opportunities for Doing MORE, has enabled DTV in
Asia, the EU, Australia, Japan, possibly Brazil and for FLO/Hiwire/Modeo in the
US. Over the last eight years on this reflector the clear thinkers have been
Craig, John Shutt, Frank Eory, the mysterious flyback (nice moniker btw) and a
few others.
There really is nothing new:
'As to Pangloss, he evidently had a lurking consciousness that his theory
required unceasing exertions, and all his ingenuity, to sustain it. Yet he
stuck to it to the last; his thinking and talking faculties could hardly be
diverted from it for a moment. He seized every occasion to say to Candide, "All
the events in this best of possible worlds are admirably connected. If a
single, link in the great chain were omitted, the harmony of the entire
universe would be destroyed. If you had not been expelled from that beautiful
castle, with those cruel kicks, for your love to Miss Cunegonde; if you had not
been imprisoned by the inquisition; if you had not travelled over a great
portion of America on foot; if you had not plunged your sword through the
baron; if you had not lost all the sheep you brought from that fine country,
Eldorado, together with the riches with which they were laden, you would not be
here to-day, eating preserved citrons, and pistachio nuts."
"That's very well said, and may all be true," said Candide; "but let's
cultivate our garden." '
The two Panglossian figures on the reflector are evident in all of this which
is moderately amusing and singularly boring by turn but alas US OTA TV is now a
sunset industry unlike in other trading blocs.
I remain stunned that US broadcasters should have allowed this to happen.
Kind Regards,
Dermot Nolan
the dn where Freeview DTV is on the cusp of overtaking DBS, now why might this
be?
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