[opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia

John -
So you have a VCR or PVR setup doing some sort of automatic timer recording and only a single antenna, right? Do you have to manually rotate that antenna ahead of recording or do all your timer recordings come from stations available from one single antenna direction? 

- Tom

johnwillkie wrote:

Me, on multiple receivers.  That doesn't mean that a single location will
get all signals, but any antenna position will give me multiple reliable
signals -- and unreliable to me means one unrecovered error in a program
viewing.

Receivers?

B2c2 (least reliable)
MyHd
Some new dongle with a name I don't recall.

John Willkie, who sometimes bites low-hanging fruit.

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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Demand for free DTV rising in Australia
Just curious. Does anyone on this digital TV list know of anyone with an ATSC VCR or PVR hooked up to only an OTA antenna that can automatically and reliable timer record from multiple OTA ATSC channels (not necessarily simultaneously) with no other switching or antenna fiddling? 

- Tom



Manfredi, Albert E wrote:


Bob Miller wrote:




And likewise I think your continuing to argue that
the modulation is not the issue is nonsense.



Oh, so you seriously believe that the reason Aussies are satisfied with
the 6-8 OTA channels they have available, to the tune of 75 percent of
households satisfied, is because they get those with COFDM. And that the
reason Americans aren't satisfied with 6-8 OTA channels they can also
typically receive, is because it's not over COFDM.

Makes no sense. This trend began in the late 1970s, when digital
modulation was not an issue. Americans went in hordes to cable in the
late 1970s and early 1980s, Aussies did not. Aussies still don't. What
do you attribute that to? PAL vs NTSC?

Obsessing over modulation when modulation is not a factor just means
that whatever is actually wrong with OTA TV in the US won't get fixed.

Bert


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