bulls**t. COFDM will flourish as a modulation scheme, sure. It's already being used in marginal broadcast purposes like providing reception assistance to satellite operations. It's being used in microwave equipment. As for consumer-level gear, in the U.S. at least, you have to overcome the ATSC hegemony, just like SACD's have to overcome the CD hegemony. You also -- I suspect you have finally realized this -- have to partner with broadcasters, since they hold AT LEAST half of the bits that your system will ultimately use. I'm adding "DVB features" as I speak to my PSIP generator system. Not DVB per-se, but features compatible with DVB service. Not a single prospect has ever expressed the merest desire in this feature set. John Willkie -----Original Message----- From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bob Miller Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 6:02 PM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: Well, well, well; five years to match 1999 COFDM indoor antenna performance Cliff Benham wrote: >Dermot, everything you write about COFDM may as well be about cars=20 >that come equipped only with Right Hand Drive; > >Useless in the U.S. unless you are delivering mail for the post office. > > > Simply untrue. COFDM will flourish in the US, DVB-H and DVB-T. Ironically the improvement in 8-VSB receivers will facilitate this. Bob Miller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.