[opendtv] Re: European HDTV is restless
- From: "Jingsong Xia" <xiaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:44:22 -0500
One correction, DMB used in Korea, and many other places, is a system based
on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), using MPEG4. It has nothing to do with
one of the proposals in debate in China.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 6:53 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: European HDTV is restless
> olivier houot wrote:
>
> > I was not in such a hurry to see HDTV come before H.264 was an
> > established standard, but now it seems it will be used
> > anyway, so i look
> > forward to Europe reawakening from its HDTV slumber.
>
> I think it is very logical to use AVC if you're just now
> introducing HDTV, especially because any HDTV streams will
> have to be sent along with at least one SDTV stream per
> channel, to remain compatible with the SD-only installed
> base. With 8 MHz channels, shouldn't be a problem.
>
> What happened essentially is that DVB-T is going through
> a transition that ATSC can avoid. Simultaneously intro
> of H.324 makes it more interesting, to me, than just brute
> force simulcast of SD and HD over MPEG-2.
>
> > By the way, did you see those news on eetimes.com about DTV
> > to mobiles
> > in Japan and Korea using DMB-T, with teh help of a british
> > company ? I
> > thought DMB-T was a Chinese (still draft) standard, that
> > Korea was officially ATSC, Japan ISDB-T and british companies more
> > involved in DVB... Any clue ?
>
> I saw that. My intepretation was that Korea was going to use
> DMB-T only for this mobile service, which I assume to be by
> subscription only? It wasn't clear in the article.
>
> http://www.eet.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D21401627
>
> Bert
>
>
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