What's the deal with DCC?

[steinjr]

If they can make them for TV's, VCR's, DVD's and Stereos, why not for DCC?

If the demand gets high enough, universal (or multi-system) throttles will come some day. Especially if most throttles go wireless, so you don't need to include a bunch of different adapter cables with a "universal throttle".

But compared to home electronics, DCC is a tiny market. The number of people who want to interoperate throttles from different manufacturers is even smaller.

When you add that some of the people who want universal throttles have the basic attitude that they don't want to spend much money on common/interoperable hardware (but just "want to go with whatever equipment is available"), then they probably would not have been all that willing to fork over a significant amount of the green stuff for universal throttles either.

Makes it hard to see much of a business case for developing, producing, marketing, selling and supporting universal throttles.

Smile,
Stein