[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo

John Shutt wrote:

>Frank,
>
>Just to clear up my foggy memory.  At Motorola did you work directly with 
>their 8-VSB chipsets?
>
>John

I did. 8-VSB was my very next project after working directly on their DVB-T 
chipsets -- in fact, the two projects overlapped by some months. That 8-VSB 
work was followed by a brief stint with the ATSC ad-hoc group on VSB 
performance, where some of us tried to shed some honest light on the good, the 
bad and the ugly of 8-VSB reception and DTV system design issues (Longley-Rice, 
OET-69, etc.). As far as I can tell, very little progress has been made in the 
4+ years since the ad-hoc group finished its work. Very little, except for 
longer pre-echo coverage in 8-VSB equalizers and a wild turkey called E-VSB -- 
which, thankfully, seems to have been stillborn.

FCC mandate or not, 8-VSB receivers are still not ready for mass consumer 
deployment, IMHO. 

-- Frank
 
 
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