[opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?

Doug McDonald wrote:
 > Hence, I think we can get a good take on this: the present tuners seem
 > to work just except for Mark Schubin. Unless there is a govenment
 > requirement for better ones, or a goverenment requirement for
 > a careful labelling for several tuner-type performance parameters,
 > the limiting factor for Mark Schubin will be the "can-type tuner",
 > since nobody will build boxes with better ones. COFDM would not help
 > this.

I'm not going to attempt to refute this other than to say it seems to be 
quite a leap.

But can anyone then say what is the price difference between a good and 
bad can-type tuner?  Maybe we would rather buy the ones that work?

- Tom

(Old CJ&F song: You can tune a piano but you cantuner fifth [gen chips]?)

> Bob Miller wrote:
> 
>>Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>For your info, those super receivers that were
>>>supposed to have been available by last quarter
>>>never materialized in production form. Bob Miller is
>>>trying hard to figure out why.
>>>
>>>Bert
>>>
>>
>>I found out why.
>>
>>Dear Bob Miller,
>>
>>The price of the 5th generation VSB chip is almost same as that of the 4th 
>>generation. Furthermore VSB portion is a little of a material
>>cost of STB. Major portion come from HD decoder/CPU chip and can-type tuner.
>>
>>The STB business division of LGE launched a few STB models in the USA market 
>>but they retreated from the STB busniess due to little profit.
>>
>>I will do my every best to help XXXXXXXXX or any manufacturers providing STB 
>>to you using our 5th generation VSB chip enhancing the reception 
>>performance of their STB.
>>
>>Best regards.
>>
>>XXXX XXXX XXXX
>>DTV Laboratory LGE,
>>tel : XX-X-XXXX-XXXX
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Ah so!!! Finally, an official word.
> 
> This is a big deal. "Furthermore VSB portion is a little of a material
> cost of STB."
> 
> There goes the "8VSB costs more" argument, out the window.
> 
> "Can-type tuner" ... COFDM needs that too, and as MSTV found out,
> bad ones don't work. The front end requirements are no different
> for VSB and COFDM.
> 
> Hence, I think we can get a good take on this: the present tuners seem
> to work just except for Mark Schubin. Unless there is a govenment
> requirement for better ones, or a goverenment requirement for
> a careful labelling for several tuner-type performance parameters,
> the limiting factor for Mark Schubin will be the "can-type tuner",
> since nobody will build boxes with better ones. COFDM would not help
> this.
> 
> Doug McDonald
> 
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