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Now that was useful answer
--- Rodolfo La Maestra <
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>
> A little bit of history and analysis would help.
>
> Back in the days when all this started, the Sencore
> HDD approach was used (late 1998/ thru 1999) in
> some stores like Mitsubishi, at that time it was the
> only way to been able to demo HD at the control
> of the retailer, there was no 24 hr HDNet yet, and
> PBS was probably the only way to view some HD
> material if lucky enough to hit the store at the
> right time, or by invitation, as it was the case in
> the DC area with Myer Emco (late evening meetings to
> show "the" HD program), some Tipsters might
> remember those days. Later the typical 24hr loops
> of E* and DirecTV helped a bit the showroom that
> cared to install the necessary equipment,
> unfortunately most did not and hoped to sell a
> $8K-$10K
> RPTV with a DVD thru S-video (Myer-Emco included, by
> the same Myer doing the demo a group of 30
> people promoting HD).
>
> The Sencore HDD was a good solution, it supplied HD
> material with a direct connection when needed.
>
> Today, having a large number of HD sets equipped
> with integrated tuners it might be better for the
> retailer to subscribe to cable and make a special
> deal for a bulk rate of adequate CableCARD
> services, have a coax splitter properly amplified at
> the entry point of the store, and send a coax
> to each TV set, that way each set could have
> complete control of the program the buyer might want
> to
> view, which makes much more dynamic and personalized
> the sale experience than having to ask the
> salesman to change centrally the only channel the
> entire store is showing, which always had the
> potential of disturbing another good sale, imagine
> someone admiring "the quality" of the Victoria's
> Secret or Bikini Destinations forcing a mother with
> her kid at the other end of the store to view
> that channel, it could be the end of that sale (and
> the store choice).
>
> Viewing an HDTV at the store should provide the
> "pre-sale" opportunity of appreciating the image
> quality tuning to various channels, HD, SD, sports,
> film, 16:9, 4:3, stretched, not stretched, etc.
> The centralized approach never works for the
> informed buyer because it becomes a nuisance for
> both
> the buyer and the sales person when having to go to
> other place to change a channel, after a couple
> of changes the buyer starts to feel the pressure and
> the sales person wants to move on, the result
> is less sales or disappointment at home.
>
> The cost of the CableCARD bulk deal with the cable
> company could be a sale multiplier that could
> probably be the best investment a retailer might do,
> several customers can change channels when they
> want multiplying the productivity of the consulting
> service of the sales person when concentrating
> on the important part: explaining and educating (if
> they know enough, but that is another problem).
>
> The customer will go home with his/her TV and
> request his/her own CableCARD, the store should be
> able to reuse the CableCARDS of the demo TVs when
> sold from the floor, the cable company have the
> chance to introduce their services from the store,
> and maybe convince the customer of "the virtues"
> of a STB for bidirectional features. It should be
> better for the cable company that the store does
> not show satellite or Sencore distributed material;
> on the surface it seems as a win-win situation
> for everyone (except for the satellite subscriber
> that has to pay for an integrated ATSC/Cable tuner
> he does not need).
>
> What Hugh experienced from Dish was most probably
> what someone already answered correctly: the store
> might had have an E* HD-STB outputting HD to a
> Sencore modulator that supplied the tuned channel
> via
> coax to the integrated TVs that tuned to that
> close-circuit channel.
>
> The problems with this method are:
>
> a) all the TVs will be slaves of the "only" channel
> chosen at the E* box,
> b) modulating the HD output of the E* box will bring
> another step of conversion that degrades the
> quality of the HD (from component analog to RF),
> c) the potential for additional coax split
> degradation for all the TVs if not done properly,
> and
> d) when eventually HD content of the choice of the
> viewer arrives protected with HDCP the HD signal
> will NOT go thru the analog connection out of the
> HD-STB (for obvious reasons), the modulator will
> have no signal to convert, and will not be viewable
> by ANY of the individual sets.
>
> The approach of the bulk deal of the Cable CARD, if
> made possible, would show that protected
> content, there is no need for HDMI/HDCP to make that
> possible.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rodolfo La Maestra
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HDTV Magazine
> On Behalf Of
> Richard
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:28 PM
> To: HDTV Magazine
> Subject: Re: Coax cable used for High Def???
>
>
> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
>
> > No, they were using Dish and it was being shown
> on every television.
>
> oh... that is a bit different...
>
> Sencore ATSC generator? Certainly makes things
> easier for the retailer.
> One huge advantage no one has mentioned as of yet
> with mandatory
> integrated DTV tuners... All that infrastructure has
> been sitting there
> unused for the most part for the last 2-4 years. I
> suppose some may have
> ripped it out!?!?
>
>
>
> Richard Fisher
>
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>
> Hugh Campbell wrote:
> > ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
> >
> > No, they were using Dish and it was being shown on
> every television. So
> > unless a JVC can have an integrated Dish tuner it
> was not an integrated
> > tuner. The picture was excellent and I can't
> figure out how they did it.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Mankin"
> <
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> > To: "HDTV Magazine"
> <
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> > Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 2:43 PM
> > Subject: Re: Coax cable used for High Def???
> >
> >
> >> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
> >>
> >> I was gonna say, if it's integrated it could be
> coax to the set. My Sammy
> >> 56" is this way with the cable card installed and
> the picture is stellar.
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: HDTV Magazine
> On
> >>> Behalf Of
> >>> Todd Tracey
> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 11:31 AM
> >>> To: HDTV Magazine
> >>> Subject: Re: Coax cable used for High Def???
> >>>
> >>> ----- HDTV Magazine Tips List -----
> >>>
> >>> Integrated HD Tuner?
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: HDTV Magazine
> On
> >>> Behalf Of
> >>> Hugh Campbell
>
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