On a lazy Sunday afternoon I've taken up a crusade to collect old press releases from Zenith and others of how they have solved the multipath problems. The oldest Zenith claim I've found so far is from Electronics Weekly back in April 1997, see <http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Article7552.htm> Can anyone provide others? - Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday 4 April 1997 Zenith claims first with ICs for US HDTV system Simon Parry Zenith Electronics claims it has developed the industry's first ICs for the digital HDTV terrestrial broadcast transmission system adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The two ICs will demodulate the digital television signal transmitted by broadcasters. Zenith invented the FCC approved VSB (vestigial sideband) digital transmission technology at the heart of the ATSC DTV standard. The chips are expected to be available later this year. Laboratory testing of first-generation chips shows compatibility with the FCC-adopted VSB transmission system, according to Paul Snopko, Zenith's R&D director. The VSB chip-set, manufactured by LG Semicon, includes two Asics, one for synchronisation and equalisation and one for channel decoding. The sync/equaliser chip locks the receiver to the VSB signal and removes NTSC co-channel interference and multipath distortion (ghosts) from the received signal. The channel decoder chip corrects errors in the received signal using Reed-Solomon and trellis coding error correction methods. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.