[opendtv] Re: 5th generation Test

Doug McDonald wrote:

>Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
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>>Dale Kelly wrote:
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>>>As I previously suggested might be the case, it appears
>>>that Zenith utilized a specially designed RF front end
>>>in the receiver used for  the 5th Gen demonstrations -
>>>possibly never to be seen again in a consumer product.
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>It's now time to try the el-cheapo 5th generation box with
>a really really good single-channel filter (Blonder-Tongue?)
>in front of it for the difficult channels. If it really is the
>front end, that should make it work. It could also
>be something else, like the chip allows different amounts of
>external memory, or uses aid from the main box CPU, and
>these were lacking in teh cheapo box.
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>Doug McDonald
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Not being an engineer I don't know but at Mark Schubin's you could count 
the cars going by by watching the monitor for drop outs on CBS for 
example. That sounds like multipath to me. With the LG prototype all 
channels were rock solid as I remember. I will leave it to Mark to give 
a better account of this receiver at his place.

Bob Miller
 
 
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