John Shutt wrote: > Let me ask you this, Bert. If a good friend of yours came > to you asking your advice on what to purchase for an ATSC > receiver today, what would you tell him? Buy or wait a > few months? What advice would you have given him in 1999? > 2000? Frustrating, ain't it? But I practice what I preach. I'd tell him to wait as long as it takes. Or if he can't wait, then be ready to do some cherry picking. I keep coming back to the same thing, though. The receivers we would have here would need VHF as well as UHF, would need to accommodate US frequency bands, would (hopefully) all need to be HD-reception compatible. So they aren't the same boxes sold in the UK. They also need to work in environments where there might be close by, strong adjacent stations etc etc, which create problems for COFDM just like any other type of receiver. All that stuff we went through recently, that had NOTHING to do with modulation type. So what makes you think that any manufacturer would be any more willing to produce excellent examples of those boxes, ones that work in Mark Schubin's apartment, without a date certain? why wouldn't they just produce the cheapest possible box meant only to meet some mandate? The techniques that work well were first devised by Linx in 2002. The only excuse for these good receivers not to be available is simple lack of interest from OEMs. Lack of interest doesn't depend on modulation type, except among evangelists. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.