That was the last line of my post as I originally wrote it but I deleted it before sending. Seemed to far fetched but I guess it could be possible. Bob Miller John Golitsis wrote: >Perhaps it hasn't occurred to anyone else that if LG were to make the >"world's most popular" ATSC receiver, they would LOSE the royalties >they would have received from sales of competitor's units. > >I keep waiting for someone else to bring this up, but you are all too >busy coming up with inane conspiracy theories. > >On 31-Mar-05, at 2:06 AM, Bob Miller wrote: > > > >>My reading of the situation has been the same since 1999. If you have >>receivers that work OTA is a gold mine. If it is a gold mine it is a >>gold mine for LG. LG makes ten times the IP royalties off of an 8-VSB >>receiver that a COFDM receiver generates and they are selling COFDM >>receivers in OZ where they have to pay OUT an royalty instead of >>COLLECT one TEN times the size. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.