[opendtv] Re: Olympics picture quality

 
> What makes you think that the streams coming down from the satellite are
> compressed?  And, that they aren't baseband?


Because 'baseband HD is 1500Mb/s and I don't think NBC has budgeted that 
bandwidth from Athens.

> 
> Are you sure that there are now "economical" devices in the real world that
> will do compressed switching?  Just last week, I was talking the network
> engineer behind the first such announced system, and I was told that it
> wasn't working yet.

We have tested the most recent Terayon and Leitch devices at our broadcast 
station here and they do work.

 
> I'm telling you that it's coming directly from Athens, a more extensive
> webbing than was done in Atlanta, (I don't know about Sydney), and you
> persist with -- appropros of nothing -- legacy thinking.  Got any proof or
> evidence?

It' not legacy thinking...it is reality. You have to wake up to the fact that 
there are still technical limitations you may not be aware of. I DO know the 
signal is passing through New York.

Terry Harvey


 
 
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