[opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:29:07 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
I greatly respect and admire Merrill and his accomplishments. He's also called
the "father of directed channel change" another technology that broadcasters
are more interested in than CE folk.
Alas, with my limited experience on an ATSC committee and a few SMPTE groups, I
have to agree with Al's observation about most broadcasters; I see more input
from local broadcasters than networks, and only one network at that.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
>From: Allen Le Roy Limberg <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 5:15 PM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
>
>Mr. Weiss claims the broadcasters are not well represented at the ATSC,
>which is instead dominated by CE manufacturers. His point of view may be
>colored somewhat because CE manufacturers are by and large less enthusiastic
>about his SFN work than broadcasters are.
>
>MosAt of the broadcasters have little but wishes and paperwork generation to
>bring to the ATSC table. They have not put themselves into a position to
>make technical contributions. There is not very much incentive for CE
>manufacturers to do work on OTA DTV, since there are better financial
>prospects in other technologies. Most CE manufacturers send representatives
>just to keep abreast of what's going on.
>
>Since the demise of RCA, there has been no company involved in all aspects
>of the TV business. The broadcasters have expected CE manufacturers to do
>all their R & D work with no up-front payoff. They should have funded a
>private R & D lab, like Bell Labs to do their system work and obtain patents
>assigned to a corporation set up to license CE manufacturers.
>
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