[opendtv] Re: Community Broadcaster's Association wants converter boxes to handle analog, too!

  • From: Albert Manfredi <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:09:40 -0500

Bob Miller wrote:

> Met with the FCC LPTV person in 1999 with the request
> that LPTV stations be allowed to use DVB-T and was
> told first that digital rules for LPTV would be issued by
> Christmas of that year and that there was no reason
> that he could see not to allow other modulations like
> DVB-T on LPTV stations.

First of all, you are talking (I think) about COFDM, not DVB-T.

But more importantly, I would think that now that 8-VSB demods have gotten so 
much better, you would be relieved. After all, there's nothing better for an 
LPTV station than having a low peak-to-average ratio. This should allow the 
highest possible transmit power with the lowest risk of interfering with the 
closest FPTV stations.

Possibly, DVB-T2 will be similar to ATSC in this regard.

In 1999, of course, the situation was very different. But we have come a long 
way since then. My hope is that the FCC is clever enough to have moved on, and 
not that they are too clueless to understand the principles involved here?

Bert

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