Interlineated reply follows: Dale Kelly wrote: >>But, will such improvements, if implemented by broadcasters, >>ever see the light of day at our friendly Consumer Electronics >>outlets? Bert Wrote: >It's only because I keep hearing word-of-mouth accounts of how much better >integrated receivers work than stand-alone STBs that I have any reason to >believe that the improvements we hear about ever make it to store shelves. I'm unaware of these integrated receiver performance reports. However I do tend to distrust such anecdotal chatter given what we know about widely varying performance results under different reception conditions. A couple of years ago I was advised by an engineer from Zarlink that Cable Ready integrated receiver designs were lacking the selectivity required to operate in many OTA environments. That could have changed I suppose, but short of testing such devices under known OTA conditions, I wouldn't bank on it. >Does anyone know if E-VSB has been incorporated in any receivers yet? It >might have been, and we're not likely to ever be told. For whatever reason. >I'm willing to bet a lot of money you won't find E-VSB or Gemini chips in >any OTA-only STB, however. Good question, I don't know the answer though. My guess would be not since, to my knowledge, E-VSB is not in broadcast use. Perhaps Zenith has done something stealthy. >But take heart, Dale. The situation is Europe is not all that different. >Aside from the DVB-H/DMB-T to cell phone hype, few people in most European >countries know or (apparently) care about digital TV or DTT. I seem to recall a recent report of Freeview viewer ship eclipsing that of analog OTA in Britain and where OTA viewer ship includes a significantly high percentage of households. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.