[opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "OpenDTV (E-mail)" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:40:12 -0400
John Shutt wrote:
> At Boeing do you post all of your internal discussions
> regarding ongoing projects on a public web site? Why
> would you think that the NAB or PBS would?
I actually did consider the possibility that work was
being done in the background. But then I figured it
sounded an awful lot like all the promises of miracle
chips right around the corner that you and others have
laughed at so long.
So no, John, you don't get that latitude.
Too bad you didn't develop those thoughts, though. That
would have been a *far* more interesting discussion than
what followed. Instead same old saw about the wonders of
COFDM.
> Why don't you ask Frank Eory which modulation method
> he prefers?
Because, for the nth time, that's completely irrelevant
at this point. I mentioned Frank in reponse to Bob
Miller's comment. Here's what Frank said that was
*relevant* to what we were discussing:
Frank Eory wrote:
> But even with a plug-and-play OTA technology, where
> mundane things like receiver performance are not an
> issue, there are so many differences between the US
> and foreign OTA TV markets that I would not bet my
> money on OTA DTV commercial success in the US. Not
> without the presumed (negotiated) carriage by cable &
> DBS. A single TV broadcaster -- even with
> multicasting -- cannot offer real competition to the
> cable/DBS multichannel packages. Ventures like USDTV
> are a step in the right direction, but not enough,
> IMHO. Even an offering like Freeview -- wildly
> successful on its home turf -- would fail miserably
> here. The fact that it's free is compelling. The fact
> that it's not the same "basic cable/sat channels" that
> we're all used to would make it uninteresting to most
> US TV consumers.
Bert
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