[opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?

  • From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:49:38 -0500

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.
>>

 
 
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