At 5:26 PM -0500 1/18/05, Bob Miller wrote: >Barry, > >We were there as the designated "datacaster". The enemies of COFDM were >howling that not only was Sinclair trying to delay the digital >transition with a phony suggestion that COFDM was a better modulation >but that they wanted to use the spectrum for datacasting and low >resolution multicasting to mobile receivers at lower more robust bitrate. > >Congressman Billy Tauzin was demanding HDTV so I think that in their own >best interest Sinclair did not want to dilute the message that COFDM >could do HD better than 8-VSB. > >Mark is right. Probably was right then. We were more interested in >changing the conversation which would probably not have helped. In the >end it was the fraudulent test that did in COFDM. You were doing great up to the last sentence. COFDM never had a chance. Fraudlent tests were just a tactic. They NEVER let science or the laws of physics get in the way of the goal. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.