[opendtv] Re: Remote controls -- where's the outrage?

  • From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:50:44 -0500

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
 
 
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