[opendtv] Re: UK DTV: 250,000 STBs a month

  • From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:50:24 -0400

If they have been waiting for 5'th gen receivers then it looks like it's 
maybe too late for Xmas this year.

- Tom

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:

> John Shutt wrote:
> 
> 
>>Terry,
>>
>>I wholeheartedly disagree with you on this one.  If
>>8-VSB worked as well as COFDM in 1999, there would
>>have been much more promotion of digital television
>>by both the broadcasters and the consumer equipment
>>manufacturers.  There would have been many more
>>manufacturers getting into the business (ala the
>>vast number of box makers for the U.K. and Australian
>>markets), and prices would have come down as a result
>>of said competition.
>>
>>Only now, in fourth quarter 2004, and only with the
>>Zenith 5th generation chip that is not yet on the
>>market, do both broadcasters and manufacturers have
>>the ability to actually believe that they can promote
>>and recommend a viable product.
>>
>>We would have been 5 years ahead of where we are now
>>if we either went COFDM in 1999 or if 8-VSB worked
>>properly from the start
> 
> 
> John, you could very well have a point. Fortunately, we
> will soon see if you do or not. Now, or by Christmas
> anyway, would be the time for broadcasters to start
> promoting their DTT heavily. And the most interesting
> part of this is that if the 2007 deadline sticks, as it
> very well might, we will still have more transition
> time left than Berlin had.
> 
> I'll be very interested to see whether DTT promotion
> will begin. More than just showing the banner "simulcast
> in HDTV" at the beginning of shows, that is.
> 
> Bert
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