[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: NAB Reinforces No Tuner Mandates for Next Gen TV
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 23:15:50 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
So, you don't think that in 15 years, or 20 years, had there been
a digital receiver mandate on radios back in 2002, we would have
that "huge installed base" of HD Radio receivers?
Maybe in vehicles,
Sigh. More wasted time. I bought at least one new alarm clock, and at least
three new tuners or receivers, and at least one new car, since 2002, Craig. All
of these should have come with HD Radio built in. And yet, it was **not even an
option**. It's not that I had a choice, it's that I had and have NO CHOICE.
Why? The cost is minimal. There are integrated chips that offer AM/FM and HD
Radio, all in one.
Irrelevant.
IT'S HIGHLY RELEVANT BERT.
Are you kidding? I just wiped out reams of irrelevant words from you, Craig.
You just wander off with your repetitious rhetoric, completely off topic. The
only relevant point is, barring the FCC mandate, ATSC 3.0 will most likely
wither away. And the NAB is proudly insisting that they want no mandate.
I couldn't care less about your repeated tirades on government regs, Craig.
Without an ATSC mandate, we'd still be relying on NTSC. Without the HD Radio
mandate, we're still relying on AM/FM. It's a good bet that without an ATSC 3.0
mandate, we'll continue to rely on ATSC 1.0.
Obviously it is not. But TV has been the driving force to extend
broadband throughput at every level of the Internet infrastructure:
Well, multimedia anyway, if not strictly "TV." And also the fact that software
packages of all kinds are becoming way too huge for dialup, and even ADSL. Just
your monthly Microsoft Update becomes unbearable, with less than broadband
service.
Please explain why I should buy a portable HD Radio...
For the same reason you'd buy any portable radio, duh. With HD Radio, you get
all manner of programming that isn't available on AM/FM. And more, if a there
had been a mandate, HD Radio by now would have been considerably better. Way
higher power, for example, and in the FM band, way more capacity.
And yet, for the very vast majority of radio appliances, you have NO CHOICE of
HD Radio. None. Like it never existed.
Bert
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