[opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?
- From: BenWebber@xxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:16:51 -0500
LG's decision not to manufacture a 5th-gen ATSC STB arises from the
obvious fact that demand for ATSC settop boxes is not significantly
different from zero. Nothing more, nothing less, and nothing to do with
manufacturing costs.
The only significant demand for any kind of ATSC tuner is in integrated
DTV sets (and that, only because of legislation requiring their
presence).
I confess to both ignorance and apathy regarding the arcana of the
modulation wars that occupy so much bandwidth on this list, but it seems
obvious to me that LG's behavior is a function of simple economic
self-interest. Apply Occam's razor, guys.
Regards,
B.
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-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of John Shutt
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:13 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?
Doug,
Let me get this straight. Both COFDM and VSB need very high
performance
tuners. The cost of a high quality tuner is too expensive for LG to
manufacture an ATSC STB for the US market of over 100 million TVHHs, but
LG
can manufacture an HD DVB STB for the 7 million TVHH Australian market?
http://www.productreview.com.au/showitem.php?item_id=2785
Something is wrong with either yours or LG's logic. My bet is that the
quality of tuner required for COFDM is not the same as that required by
an
equally well performing ATSC box.
John Shutt
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