Henry Baker wrote: >These are all good suggestions, but are applicable to only 0.001% >of the viewing audience. Why are these extreme measures necessary? >How come the CE industry can't get its act together? > > > Two reasons: 1) Antitrust ... this is not a killer reason 2) the whole idea of exclusion. The real reason for this situation is that teh different manufacturers don't WANT their products to work together with those of other manufacturers, they want you to buy ONLY THEM Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.