[opendtv] Re: Hearing
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:03:11 -0800
Those are all friends of yours. You could hold that hearing in your
apartment.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:00 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Hearing
> If there were to be a hearing in the Senate Commerce Committee on such
> things as reception requirements of an 8-VSB receiver such as the one
> proposed to be subsidized, should we consider switching to or allowing
> another DTV modulation and how important is it that the transition be
> based on MPEG4 AVC instead of MPEG2 and who should be the witnesses at
> this proposed hearing?
>
> What documents, papers and statements should be forwarded to the
> Committee before hand to help parties that might consider such a
> hearing? Answer: All of them that are forwarded to me.
>
> I am talking about a hearing that would have a whole new cast of
> characters than the ones that the House and Senate have been holding
> over the years.
>
> My suggestions would include engineers, compression specialist,
> broadcasters, receiver specialist for DVB-T, ISDB-T, DMB-T and 8-VSB.
>
> This is not a fishing expedition. Someone has asked me to put this
together.
>
> I will forward all documents, papers and statements sent to me on the
> above subjects and on the proposed witness list as they come to me and
> as is. In this case I cannot say who is asking for this.
>
> A list that I propose would include
>
> Mark Aitken, Craig Birkmaier, Mark Schubin, Frank Eory, Steven Long,
> William Smith of KET, Dermot Nolan, William Schreiber Professor Emeritus
> of MIT, Richard Bogner formerly of Bogner Antenna, John Gabriel
> compression specialist and Meric Adriansen engineer who worked on COFDM
> testing at ABC. Only because these are people I know and respect (and
> most likely to have a similar point of view to mine).
>
> Anything you send me will go out to DC the same day as is.
>
> Bob Miller
> 212-655-4415
>
>
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