[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo

Manfredi, Albert E wrote:

>John Shutt wrote:
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>>Spoken like a true bureaucrat, Bert.
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>Moi? Bureaucrat? Watch it, mister.
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>>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.
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>>Say what you will, but I will never classify the opinion
>>of Mark Schubin as either.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Bert
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If we had an 8-VSB receiver as good as a 1999 COFDM receiver I would not 
be in doubt about a venture with the  5th gen receivers we have tested 
so far and would not be up late tonight talking to the Far East about 
the latest. With COFDM I would be willing to go with any one of 50 
manufacturers tomorrow never having met them or even tested their 
receivers. 

The ONLY real test is that of the marketplace. France sold 300,000 COFDM 
receivers in the first two weeks of SD broadcasting. Think how many they 
would have sold with the added incentive of HD. Now that is a test. It 
is called PENT UP DEMAND and it comes from word of mouth in the REAL WORLD.

Japan has seen the sale of 2.5 million INTEGRATED HDTV sets with only 
three cities broadcasting at minimal power levels in ONE year. That is a 
test. Put it out there and see what happens.

We put 8-VSB out there 7 years ago and all it does is smell bad.

Bob Miller




 
 
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