Cable connections and municipal water fail in hurricanes. Trees are uprooted tearing up buried cables and pipes. When electric power is restored, its rabbit ears for TV. Al Limberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:46 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: Scrap OTA? > > > dan.grimes@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > >I'm not serious about suggesting we should scrap OTA broadcasts. Remember, > >I am one of the millions who's primary source of media is OTA (well, not > >really my primary source, but I do watch some OTA programming). But the > >way some speak on this forum, it sounds like OTA is a dying transport > >format and it wouldn't hurt anyone if it just went away. > > > >But if the same channels were offered for free over CATV, I would be > >willing to get them off CATV (although I would prefer DBS). That would > >free up a lot of OTA spectrum. > > > > > > It frees up spectrum only if you assume the purpose of OTA TV is to get > TV to your house. > > My sister-in-law lives in the Colorado Rockies about 50 miles from the > nearest supermarket, with no cable-TV in sight. Her husband watches OTA > TV. Satellite? Not if you're on the wrong side of the mountain. Free > cable won't help him. > > A good friend goes camping with a battery-operated TV. Free cable won't > help him. > > When my cable service dies, I connect my rabbit ears. Free cable won't > help that, either. > > The telephone was reportedly pooh-poohed as a business tool because > businesses had messengers. Sure enough, messengers can do some of what > a telephone can do. And free cable can do some of what OTA broadcasting > can do. > > TTFN, > Mark > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.