John Willkie wrote: > You need to employ's Occams razor. You've skipped over many more logical > reasons to get to what you claim is obvious. > I did not give any reasons, only made an observation I think is fairly hard to challenge. CE companies are very obviously NOT marketing 8vsb STB's. Do you really believe CE companies CURRENTLY feel it is economically a good idea for them to produce 8vsb STB's but for some reason are still not doing it? - Tom > John Willkie > > -----Original Message----- > From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Tom Barry > Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:53 PM > To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [opendtv] Re: White paper from CEA > > I think it is fairly obvious by now that no company feels they can make > 8vsb STB's or PVR's profitably, since no one seems to be doing it and > any possible start-up time has long since passed. Mark's Memo this week > could find NO advertisements for same. > > This may hopefully change after a forced transition, if that ever > happens, but there is no good reason to think it will soon change otherwise. > > - Tom > > > Bob Miller wrote: > >>Let me add one note. >> >>If the US switched to DVB-T, presumably LG would be able to make DVB-T >>receivers profitably for the US market. Something they say they cannot >>do now with 8-VSB. >> >>They can do it now in OZ which is only 1/16 the size of the US. So the >>US would be a slam dunk. >> >>They must have the answer that Bert is so baffled about. >> >>After all they are at the center of 8-VSB. If they can't make it happen >>who can? >> >>Bob Miller >> >>John Shutt wrote: >> >> >> >>>Bert, >>> >>>Let me walk you through it: >>> >>>If the US Switched to DVB-T, then all of those boxes made today for sale > > in > >>>Australia could be easily modified to work in the US 6 MHz bandwidth and >>>frequency spacing. Europe uses 8 MHz and Australia uses 7 MHz, so all > > DVB-T > >>>chipsets sold today worldwide are 6-7-8 MHz capable. Only the RF front > > end > >>>needs to be tweaked for the appropriate bandwidth. (And I recall one >>>company that actually did make a "worldwide box" that had all three front >>>ends included.) >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>I am baffled by the implication, yours and others, that >>>>somehow DVB-T would change this state of affairs. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >>> >>>- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > > FreeLists.org > >>>- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > > unsubscribe in the subject line. > >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: >> >>- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > > FreeLists.org > >>- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > > unsubscribe in the subject line. > >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.