[opendtv] Re: News: Glitches Come to Light in Wilmington

  • From: "Mark A. Aitken" <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:49:04 -0400

...and ATSC M/H?

On 9/9/2008 1:19 PM, Bob Miller wrote:
Do you mean not changing the transmission standard or not changing the
receivers?

Could this better FEC be made to work with all legacy receivers?

The question always has been legacy receivers. If they are made
obsolete by any change are we not in affect changing the transmission
standard? And if so shouldn't we then vet all the latest and greatest
modulations and codecs?

If anyone wants to see such a combination we probably could arrange
that in California at the moment. With enough interest such a
demonstration could include DVB-T2 as well as CDMB-TH or DMB-TH or
whatever they are calling it this week.

http://www.itechnews.net/tag/cmmb/

Bob Miller

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Shutt wrote:

With the number of viewer complaints I've been fielding lately, and
judging by the results of in-home visits, I agree.
Shucks, John. Half full/half empty. As I read the article, it was
describing a big non-event.

They got 104 calls from those who rely on OTA TV, out of 13,000 to
15,000 households that had still been using analog OTA. And as stated,
some of those merely had to do a channel scan (probably that accounts
for many who "couldn't find a signal"?). Others didn't know how to plug
in the set. Maybe some needed to pay attention to the antenna. (May some
were just lonely so they had an excuse to talk to someone.)

Not too much to complain about. It would be nice to see how those 41
percent who "couldn't find a signal" were accommodated.

Did you say that in most cases of unavailable signal, the Zenith CECB
fixed the problem, in your experience with trouble calls? Can you give
us a feel for what the bulk of problems you're dealing with are?

But sure, I too would favor more robustness. The effect that better FEC
has, as shown by those DVB-T2 viewgraphs, is where I'd be looking first,
especially because there's some gain to be had without changing the
transmission standard.

Bert


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