[opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:54:55 -0400
Richard Hollandsworth wrote:
> 3. Although it might have been "expeditious" to
> REQUIRE manufacturers to provide an ATSC tuner if
> they are going to include any sort of tuner, the
> vast majority of users (e.g. CATV, SAT, FiOS, etc)
> will never, ever use this additional cost feature.
> It should be OPTIONAL.
Of course they will. The point is, the tuner, demod,
and decoder used for ATSC and digital cable share the
same components. So at very least, you have 60% + 15%,
or 75 percent of households that will use the built-in
receiver. And there's no reason why the DBS industry
cannot enter into the agreement too. Certainly,
combined ATSC and DBS receivers have existed for a
very long time. No big shakes there either.
But no one is making monitors illegal, so in fact you
still have the OPTION. My prediction is that soon
very few will want a monitor.
The only way to end the transition is to make digital
reception as possible as analog reception is today. It
was painfully obvious that this was not occurring all
by itself. The transition would have languished
forever were it not for Michael Powell. And if we are
to believe that the "greater good" is served by
ending the transition, the FCC and Congress are within
their charter to make it happen this way.
It worked in Berlin.
> 4. I also object to paying an additional, mandated
> cost for a CableCard feature in an HDTV that I won't
> use because an external HD-DVR is a much better
> device. It should be OPTIONAL.
As far as I'm concerned, it all depends on what the
cost is. If it's $40 in 2007, and dwindling lower
after that, who cares? I've been paying the price of
those crappy sounding TV sound systems for 35 years
and have NEVER used them. I just can't muster up any
big indignation over something so trivial, though.
Accept the fact that tin-eared TV viewers pervade and
get on with it.
Bert
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