Microtune sounds alarm on tuner performance in certified US TV converter boxes: http://www.rfdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000300 On March 25, 2008, Microtune, Inc. sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) identifying what it calls a matter of critical importance to the U.S. government and to American consumers in the successful implementation of the U.S. digital television transition... Microtune's letter: http://www.microtune.com/news/2008Articles/MTLetter.pdf On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6545291.html > > > > The digital-TV-to-analog converter box came under more fire Wednesday from > Microtune, a company that makes TV tuners for some of the coupon-eligible > converter boxes, as well as tuners for TVs worldwide. > > > > Microtune told the National Telecommunications and Information > Administration in a letter Wednesday that it tested some of the > coupon-eligible boxes that did not contain its tuners -- the only U.S.-made > tuners in any of the boxes, it added -- and found problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.