[opendtv] Re: Mark's Monday Memo - off-air reception

It wasn't part of their official demo, but they DID receive off-air in 
the MGM Grand conference room.  They had a Silver Sensor sitting atop 
the racks on the left.

TTFN,
Mark


GaryBliev@xxxxxxx wrote:

>In a message dated 4/29/04 10:03:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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>>>Zenith was using off-air reception during the PBS tech conference (at the 
>>>      
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>>MGM Grand prior to the NAB) to demonstrate the differnece between each of the 
>>five generations of their VSB receiver chip.  They were able to move the 
>>antenna around until generations 1-4 quit, but 5 kept working.
>>    
>>
>>>Mark O'Brien
>>>SpectraRep
>>>
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>>>
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>I sat through one demo, and while fifth generation is much better than 1-4, 
>there was NO off air pick up nor was there any movement of any antenna.
>
>The demo I saw was strictly lab based.  No indoor reception would be likely 
>in the third floor interior room in the MGM Conference Center they used for 
>the 
>demo.
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