[opendtv] Re: Martin: 15% of Stations Face Smaller DTV-Coverage Areas
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:13:04 -0700
So, if you were interested in a discussion and not a diatribe, you would
discuss how well MediaFlo works in your daughter's apartment, instead of
providing platitudes about MediaFlo.
Did I miss that discussion?
Or are you "raising the bar for that which you disfavor, and lowering it for
that which you favor?"
Failing television stations report more revenue in a month than does
MediaFlo in a year, the latter being a national service. The position of
the latter is UNSUSTAINABLE. Like the dot-com boom, like Collaterized Debt
Obligations, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, Credit-Debt Swaps, AIG, Lehman
Brothers.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:28 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Martin: 15% of Stations Face Smaller DTV-Coverage
Areas
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bob Miller wrote:
>
>> Going forward everyday us old folks are fading away and young
>> people are inheriting this world. They are NOT interested in
>> things that have problems even minor ones. They have been
>> spoiled maybe but I cannot blame them.
>>
>> Especially once they see how easy they can get TV on a cell
>> phone and other mobile devices OTA. 8-VSB OTA has no chance ...
>
> Just as I thought, Bob, with indoor antenna, she has abysmal reception
> of all TV, be it analog or digital. That's why such a small number of
> analog channels are even viewable, forget about acceptable, in a market
> such as NYC.
>
> In such circumstances, of course, digital TV would most likely be over
> the cliff.
>
No Bert not digital TV, 8-VSB digital TV. If Verizon works easily and
well using Qualcomm's Mediaflo where 8-VSB fails then it is not about
digital TV at all, it is about the modulation.
If Verizon's service or AT&T's service or another one aimed at larger
screens using a COFDM based modulation succeeds while OTA DTV
delivering free HDTV fails or stutters along at under 3% of households
then it may be because of the modulation.
> But again, instead of making high drama out of something obvious, what
> would the European experience be, in similar circumstances?
>
> Simple answer: call the antenna guy. He would install a proper antenna
> way up top. That's what they do.
>
That is not what they do seven miles from the transmitter. Seven miles
from the transmitter in a situation where you can receive up to 17
NTSC signals good enough for audio and a fuzzy screen that you can
make out the video on would mean that with a COFDM system you would
have perfect reception, no need for an antenna installer.
> Over here, in such circumstances, almost everyone happily caves in and
> buys cable.
No need to cave to cable!!
> Even if the building once had a central antenna system, and
> this one must have had, that internal coax plant was most likely usurped
> by the cable company long ago.
>
No need to depend on that old coax. With COFDM at 7 miles none of this
even comes up.
Bob Miller
> Bert
>
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