At 5:38 PM -0500 11/10/04, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >The interesting thing about this is that indeed, these >integrated "US DTV standard" front ends are being >announced. In spite of all the nay-saying on this >topic, from the usual suspects on this august list. >These tuners will allow people with HDTV sets to >receive HDTV even if their multichannel provider is >not relaying some of the HD available in the market. >In spite of what Craig likes to say, I keep reading >that there are many out there who want this feature. Why is this interesting bert? Last time I looked, 50% of all sets 36" in diagonal and larger are required to have such a tuner. And last time I looked, this represented more than 90% of all HD capable displays sold. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.