[opendtv] Re: News: NAB/MSTV Tout Digital Dozen
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:40:39 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> For example, the CEA cannot ignore the ho hum results of
> multiple receiver tests performed even by the FCC, in years
> past (2002). Hence, to claim there are no problems for the NAB
> blessing program to address is disingenuous.
I do not always support all the activities and priorities of the NAB.
But I support much of what they are doing here. I think it has been
shown the CE companies consistently state, and maybe even believe, that
the current ATSC receiver chips are sufficient. Now it is possible
those receivers really are sufficient and it is possible they will at
least be sufficient in a couple years. But having the NAB demand the CE
companies put it in writing with RFP's and eventual contracts makes me
feel a bit better about the possibility of finding out the real truth
before the digital transition ends in a possibly embarrassing fashion.
Congress should wholeheartedly voice support the NAB's efforts in this
if we are to believe OTA TV will still have a competitive chance after
the transition. If the CE companies truly believe they can build decent
receivers for the previously bandied prices then they should have no
trouble signing contracts to do so, even if there will certainly be some
performance criteria.
- Tom
> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA631474.html?display=3DBreaking=
> +
> News&referral=3DSUPP
>
> NAB/MSTV Tout Digital Dozen
>
> By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/1/2005 4:13:00 PM
>
> ...
>
> At one point, the two groups were planning to work together to
> promote the digital switch, but had a falling- out and have
> been at some variation of public loggerheads ever since.
> However, Donovan says he is looking forward to working with
> consumer electronics companies on the new box.
>
> ...
> -------------------------
>
> It seems pretty obvious that everyone involved is behaving
> exactly as they should be expected to behave.
>
> The NAB needs receivers that work, before feeling okay about
> analog shutoff. Clearly.
>
> The individual CE companies want their boxes to be among the
> anointed few, given that there are 10s of millions of TVs out
> there that might need one in short order.
>
> The CEA as an association of vendors wants to avoid having
> the govt mandate anything at all to its membership, including
> any sort of receiver integration mandate or any sort of
> receiver performance spec minima.
>
> The govt needs to recover spectrum.
>
> It would be refreshing, though, to see some balanced comments
> coming from these organizations, acknowledging that there are
> real considerations beyond everyone's strictest self-interest.
>
> For example, the CEA cannot ignore the ho hum results of
> multiple receiver tests performed even by the FCC, in years
> past (2002). Hence, to claim there are no problems for the NAB
> blessing program to address is disingenuous.
>
> Bert
>
>
>
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