Maybe 10 years of DTV broadcasting but if you go the www.atsc.org they are celebrating the success of their 25'th anniversary meeting!
========================= Thank you for making the ATSC 25th Anniversary Celebration & Annual Meeting a huge success! =========================I assume in February the ATSC will also declare the switchover a success, no matter what actually happens.
Though I don't think it will be an absolute disaster on the first day, except in the urban canyons. Most people will look around and say, "there, that's not so bad as we worried about".
But then as time goes by and they start to rely on it in everyday use they will wonder where the cheap VCR's are, and why there are still a couple channels they never seem to be able to get reliably with their current antenna. They will then be told to get a roof top rotor or move to cable.
And I suspect as more time goes on there will also be questions about why other countries seem to on average be getting a lot higher usable bit rate on OTA mobile channels, if there are any here.
This eventually will lead to abandoning 8vsb for first OTA mobile, then OTA everything. But the new standard will be called OTA mobile to save face. This will give the ATSC.org enough to keep them happy and busy lobbying for another 25 years. ;-)
- Tom Bob Miller wrote:
The idea that the Wilmington experience was "bad" or good depends on what you consider your starting point. The FCC and you consider just getting past the transition without a riot of problems, protest or whatever as good or a success. This all in a population of 7% who still depend on OTA TV in a flat coastal plain. I have a different perspective. I think that by now, after almost 10 years of DTV broadcasting in the US, the actual end point of the transition should have been a non event since by now success, IMO, would be the fact that every home in Wilmington had at least one OTA DTV device that was being used and that the average home in Wilmington had around 5 or 6 OTA DTV receivers. Success would be defined by a small article in the Fisherman's Post Newspaper reminding people of that little known event called analog turnoff and just how much of a non-event it had turned out to be. Bob Miller On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:----------------------------------------------------------------------Bob Miller wrote:If you were referring to my post I think it is on point and very current. Maybe you could point out what you think is from the early 2000s in it.No, actually I was referring to the whole rash of negative posts, that seem frozen in time. The only "current" topic was Wilmington. Wasn't Wilmington successful? Initially, I don't know by now, they got 104 trouble calls from 13,000 to 15,000 OTA households. And of those, 41 percent were about unspecified reception problems. That's bad? That aside, what comments were made that were anything resembling current? All I saw was hyperbole. Bert _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows connects the people, information, and fun that are part of your life. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093175mrt/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.
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