We seen to disagree on if a change can occur. I think it can. I think the cost of changing is minimal compared to the cost of continuing on our present course. The only thing missing is the prod that gets the politicians attention and that comes with the actual analog turnoff. The public is not, has not been paying any attention to this. They will in early 2009. Once comparisons begin between where the US is and where other countries are in early 2009 all hell could break loose. Any examination of the last 10 years of this transition will make a lot of Congresscritters look very bad. Maybe Micheal Moore would be interested in a documentary on this. He now seems focused on the evil of money in politics and money in politics is all about broadcasting. Things can change, anything, anytime IMO. Bob Miller On 7/2/07, Dale Kelly <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob wrote: > They are drawing the right conclusions IMO. While we can make ATSC > work better it is not the right choice to begin with. AFFAIK all known > or postulated improvements to 8-VSB will leave it still far inferior > to other modulation which themselves are being improved. I fundamentally agree with your position but, unfortunately, the time has long passed when our current course could change. The best we can hope for is that manufacturers can be somehow motivated to improve 8VSB receiver performance using readily available hardware. Such an upgrade would enable performance in the Zenith "cold fusion" category. We must be pragmatic, this is about as good as it will get any time soon and that will likely be good enough for a reasonable start. However, I'm not optimistic. Were the CE manufacturers interested in a successful OTA DTV transition, these features would be in place in our current equipment. Hopefully the FCC can make that happen but I wont hold my breath. Introduction of government subsidized converter boxes is our next major milestone, perhaps that will rekindle this debate, assuming that the boxes are problematic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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