[opendtv] Re: Print Story: European broadcasters focus on improved TV picture on Yahoo! News
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:14:30 -0700
If people ONLY watched technology, your arguments might be relevant to
something -- anything.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Print Story: European broadcasters focus on improved
TV picture on Yahoo! News
> Japan started terrestrial HD 18 months ago with three cities doing low
> power. We have been at it 7 years and California is probably by far
> leading the US in HD. And that is mostly cable or satellite while the
> numbers from Japan are 2.6 million terrestrial and of that 2.6 million
> 2.5 million are integrated HDTV sets not HDTV sets being used to watch
> DVD's or homes with multiple 8-VSB receivers because the viewer keeps
> buying new ones trying to find one that works or OTA receivers in
> satellite STB's that the owner doesn't even know about and has never
> hooked up to an antenna.
>
> The numbers for HD in the US are a mish mash of indeterminate value. If
> you could break those numbers down into integrated HDTV sets, STB's
> actually being used with non integrated HD sets, number of satellite
> receivers attached to antenna, 8-VSB receivers actually being used and
> 8-VSB receivers that work well enough so that the viewer is not begging
> for a better one and HDTV sets not hooked up to any HD service at all I
> think the reality would be disappointing and hardly comparable to Japan
> a nation about 1/3 our size.
>
> Bob Miller
>
> John Willkie wrote:
>
> >wow. That's almost as many as California.
> >
> >John Willkie
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:33 AM
> >Subject: [opendtv] Re: Print Story: European broadcasters focus on
improved
> >TV picture on Yahoo! News
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Mark Aitken wrote:
> >>
> >>
>
>>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050607/tc_nm/television_highdefinition_dc&pri
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> >>>
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> >>Japan has more than 2 million households with HDTV according to this
site.
> >>
> >>http://www.dibeg.org/news/news-4/news-e4.htm#dn050e
> >>
> >>2.6 million terrestrial and 3.6 million if you count cable.
> >>
> >>Bob Miller
> >>
>
>
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