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EPGs: the proprietary debate
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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 22713" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>I guess it's a question of how strong the demand is. The percentage of the population that wants to take their own receiving equipment with them abroad, is very small. I think this is slowly changing as equipment becomes smaller/lighter, and people more mobile. But will it ever be a sufficiently high number to itself provide a business case for (eg) enforcing standards between nations? </p><p></p><p>How much of a problem is it in reality that there are several analogue terrestrial broadcast standards in use across Europe (PAL I, B, G, D, K; Secam L, L', B, D, G, K)? Apparently it isn't seen to be much of a problem judging by the fact that there are still very few multi-system TV sets or VCRs on the market, and they're typically the high-end models. The mod required to change the UK PAL-I tuner to a Dutch PAL-B/G tuner (for example) is so trivial it's laughable. One cheap capacitor to change the frequency of the audio carrier. To build this and a switching mechanism into every TV set would mean no more than a few cents additonal manufacturing cost - yet it isn't there - because there's no significant demand for it. </p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 22713, member: 174998"] I guess it's a question of how strong the demand is. The percentage of the population that wants to take their own receiving equipment with them abroad, is very small. I think this is slowly changing as equipment becomes smaller/lighter, and people more mobile. But will it ever be a sufficiently high number to itself provide a business case for (eg) enforcing standards between nations? How much of a problem is it in reality that there are several analogue terrestrial broadcast standards in use across Europe (PAL I, B, G, D, K; Secam L, L', B, D, G, K)? Apparently it isn't seen to be much of a problem judging by the fact that there are still very few multi-system TV sets or VCRs on the market, and they're typically the high-end models. The mod required to change the UK PAL-I tuner to a Dutch PAL-B/G tuner (for example) is so trivial it's laughable. One cheap capacitor to change the frequency of the audio carrier. To build this and a switching mechanism into every TV set would mean no more than a few cents additonal manufacturing cost - yet it isn't there - because there's no significant demand for it. 2old [/QUOTE]
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