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@H1000 posted:

They already have licensed it to other parties, like Dave Hikel & Atlas.

Why wouldn't MTH be willing to sell Lionel a license?? as you said earlier "MTH would win because they would sell more locomotives to people like me and DCS would likely come into wider use."

I don't see how it benefits Lionel much, They have to develop updated software for their remotes and apps, probable release a new LCS hardware module to handshake with the TIU and pay MTH a licensing fee just so that their customers can buy someone else's product.

And to add, if Lionel wanted to control most, and all future MTH and Atlas engines, they could just implement DCC in their LCS system somewhere, and update the app.  You don't even need DCS to operate MTH DCS PS 3.0 locos!  Every PS 3.0 locomotive made supports DCC out of the box.  DCC is an open standard!

Last edited by rplst8

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