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

  • From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:59:08 -0400

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 Shutt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Harvey" <tjharvey@xxxxxxx>

> However, Bob, I do not think that the choice of modulation would have made
> any impact on terrestrial DTV uptake in the US. US broadcasters are
> indifferent to OTA broadcasting: they view it only as a means to secure
> cable carriage.

 
 
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