No. Good question, though! After I attended an early demo at Philips Labs, I REALLY wanted to take the prototype home. TTFN, Mark Benham, Cliff wrote: >Out of sheer curiosity, was any testing of the analog 'ghost = >cancellation test signal' receiving equipment=20 >ever done at the Schubin apartment using just an indoor antenna? > >________________________________ > >From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mark Schubin >Sent: Wed 12/7/2005 1:51 PM >To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [opendtv] Re: Integrated DTV PSIP > > > >John Shutt wrote: > > > >>I'll let mark speak to the properties (or lack thereof) of the NTSC = >> >> >ghosts > > >>he receives at his apartment. >>=20 >> >> >> > >I think Bert nailed it pretty well. There are unquestionably ghosts -- >in the canyons of Manhattan, how could there not be? -- but they are >pretty close and, therefore, relatively innocuous. They don't even >interfere with reading text in commercials. There is no signal-strength >issue with my analog reception, so the only thing keeping the pictures >from being studio grade is the ghosts. NTSC reception with a set-top >antenna remains very good. ATSC reception with a set-top antenna, >except for the LG 5th-generation box, is spotty to non-existent. > >For what it's worth, during the brief period of DTT from the World Trade >Center (which was an earlier era of boxes), the problems seemed >comparable. That was more like six miles rather than two. > >TTFN, >Mark > > > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.