[opendtv] Re: 20050419 Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:28:29 -0400
Bert and Doug,
In Australia, as in many apartment complexes here in the United States, the
MATV system includes some basic cable channels in addition to the off air
channels.
If you bother to research the story at all using the link provided by Mark,
you will find that there is a checklist that an apartment owner should give
to a contractor to determine what work would need to be done to the MATV
system to allow it to pass OTA digital signals.
One of the check boxes on this form is "In your opinion, would it be
appropriate for people in this building to use an indoor antenna to receive
DTT services?"
Sheesh.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:45 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20050419 Twang's Tuesday Tribune (Mark's Monday Memo)
> John Shutt wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> - The "Digital Terrestrial Television Survey of Master Antenna
>>>Televis=
>>>ion Installations on the [Australia] Gold Coast" shows that, "Put simply,
>>>t=
>>>he master antenna (MATV) systems of many apartment and townhouse
>>>developmen=
>>>ts are not capable of receiving free to view digital TV without
>>>potentially=
>>>substantial upgrade costs to the body corporate,"
>
>
> BUT ..... this is AUSTRALIA .... MATV systems are NOT NEEDED ...
> just a little set-top antenna. John ... Australia is COFDM
> country. You are among those who always claim that only small
> indoor antennas are needed with COFDM .... why even bother reporting
> such a story if it is meaningless?
>
> Could it be that COFDM does NOT in fact work reliably on trivial
> settop antennas. I do realize that Australia like the US does
> use VHF for DTV, so some micght need real rabbit ears as well as
> or in place of the Silver Sensor.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
>
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