[opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400

  • From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:18:51 -0700

Yes, you aren't in your right mind.

Nobody is asking anybody to make a decision vis a vis COFDM vs 8VSB now, at
least in most countries.  For example, is that an active discussion in
France, Germany or the UK?

Yet, when people in their right mind make the decision -- Mexico unduly
influenced by the U.S., yeah, that seems logical to somebody living on
Roosevelt Island -- and they make a decision contrary to your uninformed
objectives, the decision is political.

You are clueless about politics: national and international.  (I have no
data points on local or state).

Indeed, the argument can be made that the people advocating COFDM need to
resort to politics to make their arguments stick (a bit.)  And, there is
ample evidence that the COFDM advocates have a tin ear when it comes to
politics.

Note:  I don't play politics, but I do watch, from somewhat of a remove.

You want to ignore the market dynamics aspects of the decision to a purely
engineering one.  That's a non-starter, since IN COUNTRIES WHERE 8-VSB has
BEEN ADOPTED, commercial broadcasters outnumber non-commercial or
governmental ones.  In countries where COFDM has been adopted (save only
Australia) the non-commercial and governmental broadcasters far outnumber
the commercial ones.

So, when the market-oriented management of TV stations, groups and networks
hear your arguments (save for Sinclair, which follows it's own drummer down
to inner Baltimore to pick up ... never mind) they think: do we want to be
like the U.K. or Germany.

You do have an up: getting the wannabes, entities with only aspirations of
distribution but lacking content or access to content, to go your way.
After they fail, broadcasters might be interested in picking up the
distressed assets IF YOU HAVE DEVELOPED NEW AND EXCITING SERVICES.

Mark my words.

John Willkie

-----Original Message-----
From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Miller
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:19 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: (No Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:30:37 -0400


Kon Wilms wrote:

>Bob Miller wrote:
>
>
>>No one in there right mind would chose 8-VSB over COFDM now, in 2000, in
>>1999 or five years from now. Mexico, Canada S. Korea and the US were all
>>political decisions IMO. The best interest of the public were not and
>>are not being considered.
>>
>>
>
>You forgot to remove the punctuation mark ',' after the words 'COFDM now'.
>
>Cheers
>Kon
>
Are you suggesting that I am living in the past? How about ...

No one in their right mind would chose 8-VSB over COFDM now, or in 2000, or
in
1999, or five years from now.

You didn't mention that I misspelled their as there.

Bob Miller



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