[opendtv] Re: PR: Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households Cannot Receive Complete Network Digital Service
- From: Dallas Axelrod <dallas_axelrod@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:13:59 -0700 (PDT)
John:
The information you question like the methodology and the source of the
information is posted on the www.iwantmyhdtv.com website. In addition, the
company that did the work for the coalition is also posted on the site. I
assume that you could contact those engineers to get the answers to all your
questions.
However I'd you'd just be told that the maps were made using the same
methodology used by the FCC to determine whether a consumer is served by an
over the air broadcaster. As you may or may not know, consumers have been
complaining about the accuracy of these predicted models since 1999. The
satellite TV companies keep complaining that the methodology should be updated
to take into account modern consumer expectations, but the broadcasters remain
firm in their view that the methodology is accurate.
According to Digital Transition Coalition's website, the group wants consumers
across the country to be able to receive DTV service from local broadcasters
immediately, and for the analog spectrum used by the broadcasters returned by
2006.
The conclusion is that the maps and figures provided by this group are probably
on the conservative side, especially since they're used a methodology supported
by the National Association of Broadcasters and used by the FCC. The
individuals who posted complaints about the accuracy should direct there
complaints to the FCC rather than lodge their complaints at the Digital
Transition Coalition. It just further proves that the broadcasters are
dragging their feet in making DTV service available.
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[opendtv] Re: PR: Consumers in 39 Million U.S. Households Cannot Receive
Complete Network Digital Service
From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:14:37 -0700
Why are you introducing any reality into this debate? What was the
antennacriteria? What noise figures for receivers were used? Did they
employfree-space, R-6602 or some other signal loss criteria?You don't have much
geographical (hill/mountain? limitations in Illinois,but how (if at all) were
those figures included in the data set?Who provided the source data (the FCC's
old databases are NOTORIOUSLYinaccurate) and could they provide the names of
the actual engineers thatdid the calculations, or the programmers who wrote the
algorithms?Who verified the maps against the data? (I suspect nobody.)Here's
the nub: who not in a mental hospital (or working againstbroadcasting) thinks
that any broadcaster wants to reach fewer people withdigital than with analog.
In other words, why do we have to devote anyeffort and energy to overcome a
problem that broadcasters will either solveindividually or will suffer
collectively as a result of?John Willkie
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