[opendtv] Re: How important are new Codecs wrt OTA Broadcasting?
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:08:19 -0500
They are setting up a "task force" which will include broadcasters.
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060221/4/2g5tj.html
That should be interesting since broadcasters there fought so long and
hard to can 8-VSB. Maybe the whole thing will blow up once again. It
certainly should.
Bob Miller
John Shutt wrote:
>Interesting statistics quote from the article:
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>"According to the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) Tuesday,
>roughly 3 million currently own digital TV with a penetration rate of 17.8
>percent.
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>"The figure compares with 66 percent for Britain, 56.9 percent for the
>United States, 36.6 percent for Japan, 29.4 percent for France and 20
>percent for Germany."
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>The US is at a digital TV penetration of 56.9%? That must include Digital
>Cable and Digital Satellite, because the Digital off air penetration is
>nowhere near 5% let alone 56%.
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>John
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>>Interesting article on the state of 8-VSB in Korea also.
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>>http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200602/kt2006022119010711880.htm
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