[opendtv] Re: Microtune Claims Problems with Some DTV Converter Boxes

  • From: "John Limpert" <john.a.limpert@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:47:12 -0400

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:
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> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6545291.html
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> 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.
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>  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.
 
 
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