[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:36:32 -0500
Sorry, I was lumping the CEA in with the retailers. I know that when a
sale is made to Satellite, there is a "pop" for the signing party. In
some cases, there is a continuing "residual". If you want OTA DTV
anymore (with just a few exceptions), you have to be a "paying member"
of someones. Even the new DirecTV HD20 box (MPEG2/4 HD capable SAT box),
with the LG 5th GEN (first box for LG with 5th GEN not integrated into a
display device) requires a subscription to work (even for the FREE OTA).
As to the numbers, they are all fungible. It is certainly more than 15%,
I guess I've been sniffing the CEA punch too long :^)! OTA ought to
matter more, yes! In reality, it does. Most of the HDTV people are
watching is local station (read OTA first) related. THEY (CEA) DON'T
CARE! As a thinking person, you may not see the logic ;^), but then
again I was talking about the CEA.
Similar, yes, to some degree...not too much to mind. Thanks!
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Except that the CEA doesn't see those "sign up" bonuses
>either, do they? If anything, the NCTA, right? To the
>CEA, one ATSC STB should be just as good as one cable STB.
>
>On the 85 percent figure, how come we keep reading that 35
>percent or more viewership is lost when a station drops
>off the air? OTA viewership ought to matter more to the
>CEA, one would think.
>
>Seems to me that broadcasters and cable operators are in a
>similar situation. Not identical. And I sure ain't
>pointing fingers at Sinclair.
>
>Bert
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