Craig Birkmaier wrote: > And why would any CE manufacturer build a multi-standard > receiver? Please explain the market demand. We've been over this more thasn once. For the same reason that CE manufacturers willingly modified their designs, e.g. added VHF to DVB-T receivers, in order to make them available to the German market. In spite of the fact that use of OTA TV in Germany was something like 9 percent of households. Unless the manufacturers are in bed with someone, they do things like this to stimulate demand. If it costs them little, I don't see any reason NOT to offer products. Sure enough, no question about it, if you don't offer and don't advertize products, the market will not materialize. Everybody knows by now, I think, that in most large markets the demand for new products is CREATED, even if there was no perceived "need" for the product previously. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.