[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:35:11 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>Frank Eory wrote:
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>>I'm still waiting for a data point - just ONE
>>unbiased data point - that shows a long range
>>reception advantage of 8-VSB over COFDM.
>>
>>
>
>Me too.
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>>Sure we have portable laptops, and some of them
>>even get more than 2 hours of battery life. But
>>they don't compare well in size, power or
>>battery life with simple transistor radios.
>>
>>
>
>Agreed. Ditto for digital radio. This will take
>more time. The fact is, right now, including DVB-H,
>you can't transmit a common digital signal that is
>at the same time high quality and receivable by
>low drain devices. DVB-H simply assigns spectrum
>for that specific purpose (even if it's sharing
>the spectrum with a TV station, it still ain't
>free).
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>>The profit-minded sensible business folks have
>>moved on, while the zealots continue to promise
>>perpetual motion machines and "cold fusion" ...
>>
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>The simple fact is, in spite of your "sensible"
>business folk, more than 22 million households
>have been depending on OTA TV for a good many
>years now, and the FCC has not and shows no signs
>of "moving on" to anything other than 8-VSB.
>
>So say what you will, but 8-VSB has to be made to
>work. And is being made to work.
>
>Bert
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>
It emphatically does not have to be made to work. We have been "making
it work" unsuccessfully now for years. We could petition Congress to
change the modulation. If all broadcasters and many like ourselves did
that it would happen. Congress is operating in an information vacuum. I
saw that a few weeks ago when I confronted Congressman Barton on the
need for a decent receiver.
He was totally convinced that there was NO problem. That is what
manufacturers tell him because manufacturers think that is what he wants
to hear. It was the same back in 2000. No one tells Congress what is the
reality.
Bob Miller
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