[opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo) 2004April20
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:47:02 -0400
John -
I think the assigned purpose was to show digital television ((H)DTV )
using directional (non-urban?) rooftop antennas which they assumed all
users would have for some silly reason.
But I don't care about the 'assigned purpose'. I am a consumer and
want to consume the things I want to consume. I justify that by being
willing to pay $$$'s for them.
But when I posted earlier I was somewhat more disgruntled than usual
with ATSC. Wednesday night has 2 of my favorite shows on WB in HDTV
here in Jacksonville, Smallville & Angel. But with my rooftop UHF
antenna mounted on a 13 foot mast in my living room 6 miles from the
tower my WB reception was so bad when I posted that I had just turned
off the show and decided to let my Tivo just get it in NTSC. It did
that just fine from the same antenna.
Of course my local WB digital station is only broadcasting about 1/3
nanowatt of power but that still does not make me a happy camper
tonight with ATSC.
So I don't care if it was officially decreed that I should not be able
to watch Smallville & Angel this evening in HDTV. It still sucks.
- Tom
John Willkie wrote:
> Additional spectrum was for DTV, not (H)DTV. I seem to see that
> broadcasters are using the spectrum loaned to them for the assigned
> purpose -- current, past and future tense.
>
> John Willkie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Barry
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:08 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo) 2004
> April20
>
>
> If it was not any of the broadcasters then who was it that first asked
> for the additional spectrum for (H)DTV?
>
> And in any event, if the broadcasters do not want it and do not like
> paying the duplicate electric bills then why are they so determined to
> hang on to the extra channels forever? If it is so bad then why
> prolong the agony?
>
> - Tom
>
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>
>
>>>From Mark's Memo:
>>
>>
>>
>>>- There's an interesting take on multicasting in the Columbia
>>>Journalism Review:
>>>http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/2/hickey-tv.asp
>>
>>
>>This article again confuses sets considered by the CEA to be
>>"digital" with receivers capable of decoding the ATSC streams.
>>
>>Also, it describes how consumer groups have recently come to
>>demand a "pay back" from broadcasters. Presumably, the pay
>>back is for the privilege of being forced to spend millions of
>>dollars in a digital conversion they didn't ask for, and to
>>have and to continue paying much higher power bills for the
>>combined analog and digital transmission facililties. Perhaps
>>predictably, this pay back is to be in the form of programming
>>for the multicast channels that historically has been shown to
>>have next to zero viewership.
>>
>>Bert
>>
>>
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