[opendtv] Re: I don't mean to be rotten but economics has done it in for US DTV and the schoolboy bullies on this reflector...

  • From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:15:13 -0500

Yes signal reception was the problem for USDTV. To many truck rolls.
Sell 3 install 1 and go back 30% of the time to solve a problem with
the one which you lose as a customer 30% of the time.

They were ecstatic when in a conference call with Hisense I told them
how good the 5th gen prototype was and asked if Hisense would/could
make them for us. Hisense said they could/would and a week later USDTV
announced that they would be using the technology.

Never Happened. Would have helped. Still would not be good enough. IMO
USDTV's revival is a short term money play. At the new purchase price
just taking the monthly cash flow for X period is a winner.

Any real expansion I will have to see to believe.

8-VSB is a real killer.

It is all about the modulation and even if one is only a bit better it
can mean all the difference. Any digital modulation being used is far
better than 8-VSB however.

Bob Miller

Bob Miller

On 12/16/06, Steve Wilson <stevenjwilson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> At 7:59 PM +1300 12/16/06, Barry Wilkins wrote:
>> Regarding H.264 for HDTV via DVB-T, I understand that TVNZ (New
>> Zealand) are about to utilize MPEG4 on our soon to be established
>> DTTV platform for (presumably more channels of) SDTV via DVB-T in the
>> new year. What other countries are utilizing MPEG4/H.264 for SDTV
>> right now?
>>
>
> It is or soon will be used by a number of systems in the U.S., but not
> by ATSC broadcasters other than USDTV, which announced an H.264
> adapted at NAB, and plans for a new STB that should be release about now.
I thought USDTV was gone, but now I see they are back in business.
I am almost afraid to ask, does anyone known whether signal reception at
customer premises was a big problem for them.
>
> DirecTV is using H.264 in new STBs to deliver HDTV and I believe that
> they will use H.264 for SDTV to add more markets for local into local.
> Dish Networks is also migrating to H.264, presumably for HD
> programming first.
>
> I believe that all mobile TV operators will use H.264, but this may be
> for "less" than SDTV quality.
>
> Apple is using H.264 for video downloads from the iTunes store at 640
> x 480 resolution (progressive scan), although widescreen material is
> encoded at 640 x XXX lines (square pixel) based on the actual aspect
> ratio - IMHO this is generally better than SDTV quality, but not quite
> 24P DVD quality.
Vongo is also H.264 (Windows VC1 actually)
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
>
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