Hello, I was delighted to see this posting by Alan Roberts: > I've been monitoring this list for some time (years) but have not yet posted > because I didn't want my affiliation to mar discussions. I've just retired > from 36 years working for the BBC in R&D, much of it in developing DTV and > HDTV. A very warm welcome to you, Sir Alan ! ;-) We've often had discussions off-line about what we had read in OpenDTV, but he has always refrained from posting any messages. I hope that from now on we may enjoy some brilliant contributions from you, dear Alan. I have only recently returned to OpenDTV, because due to a glitch at Topica I stopped receiving messages and I was thrown off the web access too. I have enjoyed the break, hehe. I hope that this message will make it to the list, after such long time. FWIW, I too can now receive BBC in digital quality, through DVB-S reception from Astra 2. The bird is aimed at the UK, but it also illuminates all of NL and B, and a part of France. The signal is no longer encrypted. No complaints about the quality from me. I still intend to prove that I can receive Astra 2 with a regular Triax TDS88 dish with the extra LNB at 12 degrees off-centre. They want to sell you an expensive multi-focus dish for receiving two or more positions, but I think that that is not necessary. (I am interested in Hotbird @ 13deg, Astra1 @ 19deg, Astra2 @ 28deg, but in my 2nd dish the monoblock is centred and fixed at 16deg.) Professionally I am doing rather interesting things about signal processing for LCD TV. As always near the back-end = the display. Best regards, -- Jeroen. |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| | From: Jeroen H. Stessen | E-mail: Jeroen.Stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx | |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| | Building: SFJ-6.22 Eindhoven | Philips Digital Systems Laboratories | |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| | Phone: ++31.40.27.32739 | P.O. Box 80002, (Street: Glaslaan 2) | |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| | Fax: ++31.40.27.32572 | NL 5600 JB Eindhoven, the Netherlands | |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| | Pager: ++31.6.6513.3818 | Visit us: http://www.pdsl.philips.com/ | |------------------------------+-----------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.