Mark -Can you predict whether the broadcasters are going to lobby for another delay? Or will they be happy enough to just finish the transition and be done with it in 2009?
- Tom Mark Aitken (Work @ Home) wrote:
CRAP, CRAP, CRAP...nothing but CRAP. COFDM was about ensuring that our emitted signals could be recepted! It was about more than one business model! It was about remaining competitive. (We were quite willing to take existing planning factors BTW!)Who has been continuing to drive ATSC? Sinclair (among a few others..)! Bert, it was NEVER about delay, quite the opposite. Markthe one who is increasingly coming to know that most of what people think they know about "THE TRANSITION" is CRAP----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:34 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: New transition web siteBob Miller wrote:A lot of members of the NAB would have been for a switch if it had not been for their abject fear of Congress. ABC, NBC, Pappas, Sinclair and others would all have voted for COFDM if Dingell and others were not threatening them with loss of spectrum and licenses saying that the bid for COFDM was a delaying tactic.Judging from what's been happening since 2002, saying that the switch to COFDM was just a delaying tactic sounds ever more plausible. Depending who was doing the asking. Clearly, the industry as a whole seems to be dragging their feet any way they can, when it comes to FOTA TV. Whether that was to spend another couple of years redoing the planning factors for COFDM, or whether that was keeping the ATSC innovations strictly hidden away from consumers.Bert _________________________________________________________________Win a ZuneT-make MSN® your homepage for your chance to win! http://homepage.msn.com/zune?icid=hmetagline---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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