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Posted by Jeff Rife on 10/02/93 11:34
David Levy (d_levy@lifeisunfair.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > No, and you have the same problem with speakers on TVs, NTSC
> > tuners on TVs, and a whole plethora of other "bundled" systems
> > (look at car manufacturers for the worst examples).
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> Integrated analog tuners and speakers of average quality are dirt
> cheap, so it doesn't make sense to exclude them.
Oh, so now you get to change the rules.
> Digital tuners will be similarly inexpensive in the not-too-distant
> future, but they aren't today.
Sure they are. There are RCA TVs with ATSC tuners with MSRPs *less*
than the sets they replaced which did not have ATSC tuners.
> I wouldn't be surprised if ATSC tuners were to become mandatory in all
> units with tuning capabilities, but I see no valid reason to ever
> prohibit the production of "monitors" without any tuning capabilities
> at all.
That makes sense...if you don't expect a tuner at all, not having a digital
one isn't much of a surpise, either.
> As mentioned above, however, there will be a point (possibly very
> soon) at which ATSC tuners will become cheap enough that it no longer
> pays to omit them.
That point is already here. Many manufacturers try to charge a premium
because the HDTV contains an ATSC tuner, but it adds less than $50 to the
street price, and they still can make a profit.
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