We have previously talked about how the broadcasters do not promote HDTV and are afraid of pissing off the cable companies.
However this year many broadcasters seem to be feeling their oats and willing to hold up the cable companies for retrans consent dollars, either for everything or at least for HDTV.
But if that is the case then it would seem they would be in a much better negotiating position if they would push OTA HD. Instead I found it fairly amusing when one cable company was giving away free antennas but the broadcaster on the other side of the table (Sinclair?) was pushing satellite discounts.
Does that make sense to anyone? Mark Aiken? Can you explain that part? - Tom Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Dale Kelly wrote:However, the one aspect of this long discussion, which I simply can not comprehend, is the notion that the eight years lost awaiting the development of workable VSB receivers is of little consequence to the OTA industry.I agree. Eight wasted years. COFDM would not have changed that. We can both agree that there are politico-economic forces out there that don't want good DTT in the US. They successfully delayed introduction of *good* low-cost 8-VSB receivers for at least 3 1/4 years, essentially blocked availability of ATSC recording devices completely, and are still keeping inventory of the first ever 5th gen STB low in stores. These guys want to stall DTT in the US. Why on earth would those guys have allowed COFDM? The US consumer is easily swayed to umbillical media, and these guys know it, and they exploit that fact. If you think I'm an 8-VSB zealot, then you'll assume I'm saying things I do not intend. If any kind of zealot, I'm an OTA zealot. Lame excuses for US OTA TV not thriving just p*ss me off. Onr of them is the modulation choice. A lame excuse. Take a look at this for an alternative reality in Europe. http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?class=countries&subclass=0&id=2181 No one there is running scared about what ads the cable companies might threaten to pull. If you can read this far down, it is actions such as LG's of three + years ago that convinced me the problem was not product development anymore. 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.
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