[opendtv] Re: Why?
- From: Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:30:16 -0800
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 17:57 -0800, John Willkie wrote:
> Rather than going on whining about receiver issues (at home in TJ, my b2c2
> card picks up San Diego DTV stations with about 15-21 SNR, but not the one in
> TJ; at my mother's house, my b2c2 picks up the TJ DTV station with 15 db SNR,
> but not the San Diego ones. The TJ station is less than 3 miles from my
> home; most of the San Diego DTV stations are less than 5 miles clear line of
> sight from mom's home.)
> So, rather than whining, I would like to know from people who were there
> (this is not a speculative issue);
>
> Why, when the specs were adopted, there were no (and still are no):
>
> ATSC reference bit streams;
> ATSC receiver specifications (there are only recommendations now);
> Exemplars of bad bit streams (I have recently acquired some "off the air" as
> pertains to PSIP).
Speaking of which - I remember a killer encoder tape from my time spent
at WHD, which did a pretty good job of making STBs and encoders fall
over - does anyone know if this tape is still around in bitstream
format?
Cheers
Kon
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