[opendtv] Re: Let them eat cake (and ATSC while they're at it)
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:27:07 -0700
So would I, Stephen.
Alas, that ain't the U.S. system. Could you find me a study on the
percentage of U.S. basements that can receive NTSC?
Also, I am quite interested in hearing about how TV sets can receive TV
signals if there is no power available to the set.
There were many considerations that went into the rules the FCC -- long a
foe of the Department of Defence -- put into place for civilian
communications.
One aspect: if you were competing with another applicant to build an AM or
FM station, and your application was considered equivalent to the other
party's, but you proposed a backup generator, but the other applicant did
not, you ended up with the license.
On the other hand, because there are few to none portable TV sets with
battery power (and even those have short battery life), if you were in the
same situation vis a vis another TV staiton applicant, it still was a draw,
because the FCC saw (and I suspect, still sees little or no need) for TV
when the power was out.
Different agencies have different missions. I don't think that the FCC is
off base with NTSC or ATSC. Unlike most other countries, there at least is
the possibility of having a competing system operating here.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen W. Long" <longsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Let them eat cake (and ATSC while they're at it)
> I have an agenda. I want the replacement for NTSC to be able to be
> received by people hiding in their basements when the $%^&*() hits the fan
> and folks like me have to go outside, sort out the mess, and take the
fight
> to the folks that cause us so much grief.
>
> When the tornado moved within a mile of my house in No. Va. last year I
> moved my family into the basement and we watched OTA NTSC TV for pictures
> and graphics of the path of the storm. The NTSC pictures were very
> viewable, using just rabbit ears on the set in the basement.
>
> Our DirecTV reception was out due to heavy cloud cover and rain.
>
> In the official tests of ATSC in my house, the large reflections of signal
> from the hill behind my house killed any viable 8VSB reception.
>
> My recent technology HD Tivo with a 3rd? or 4th? generation 8VSB chip is
> basically unwatchable. The 8VSB signals drop out so often that programs
> are just unwatchable. I have tried using my roof mounted antenna and
> rabbit ears. Just crap reception.
>
> My agenda is simple, I just want it to work.
>
> At 03:14 PM 5/16/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA...
> >
> >John Golitsis wrote:
> >
> >>All these demos/tests were conducted by people/groups with an agenda.
> >>
> >>Who's agenda do you want to believe?
> >>
> >>On 16-May-05, at 2:46 PM, John Shutt wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >
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