[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo

John Shutt wrote:

> Spoken like a true bureaucrat, Bert.

Moi? Bureaucrat? Watch it, mister.

> You have never seen COFDM in action, and you have never
> seen 8-VSB in action, yet you are the go-to expert on the
> subject because you've read other people's studies.
>
> Say what you will, but I will never classify the opinion
> of Mark Schubin as either.

Don't get sanctimonious on me now, John. I never claimed to
be a go-to expert on 8-VSB in action, just someone who pays
attention to real test results.

You have never seen Mark provide any comparative test
results of 8-VSB vs COFDM in his apartment, and yet there
seems to be some sort of common wisdom that such information
is available. I *have* seen him making carefully worded
educated guesses, however, based on tests in different
sites.

For example, the 5th gen LG prototype in his apartment
worked with a loop antenna, while the COFDM receiver in a
Baltimore site worked even just by touching the antenna
terminal, where his body was the antenna.

This is a far cry from "even the best of the ATSC 5th
generation receivers of today cannot match the performance
of DVB-T receivers that were already available in 1999."
We simply don't have the information to make such
conclusions, in any sort of varied settings. Hence,
emotional outburst.

Bert

 
 
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