[opendtv] Re: 20051029 Schubin's Saturday Stuff (Mark's Monday Memo
- From: "Tony Neece" <tonyneece@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:57:02 -0800
I really am puzzled as to how COFDM became a religion! COFDM is =
telephone
technology, after all. ATSC works, and quite well, according to reports =
from
those that have 4th or 5th generation receivers. Are DVB-T decoders =
really
a ton cheaper to make than ATSC receivers? I have not seen any real
engineering studies that show DVB-T to have significant advantage over =
ATSC
receivers that have the improved equilizers. If anyone knows of one let =
me
know. I am most interested. =20
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Memo
> - Representative John Dingell called the cost of
> adapters a "television tax of $20 to $60 per TV set."
> "Why should ordinary people pay for a government decision
> that makes their television sets obsolete?":
<http://au.news.yahoo.com/051026/11/wikp.html>
That's easy.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The transition started
in 1998 for this exact reason. We squandered away 7 years
of transition with a "do nothing" policy.
I'd agree completely that the ATSC receivers of 1998
weren't any good. But then again, the Dingells of Congress
could have pushed hard to modify ATSC with COFDM at the
physical layer, back then, to maybe, perhaps, help avoid
this last-minute rush.
Now is now, though, and ordinary people are being made to
pay for govt decisions like they always have throughout
history. If we believe this serves some greater good, fine.
If not, I'm not sure what he sees as the alternative. Drag
the "transition" out forever? Or kill OTA outright? Or
just stay with NTSC and free up the DTT spectrum with
improved NTSC receivers? What are the alternatives he sees?
Bert
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