Mark, I was not talking about your apartment. Before we came to your apartment we had tested first at the AT&T building on the 25th floor where we had our COFDM transmitter located on a large terrace there. In the office with a large window facing the Empire State building only a block below Canal Street we had a table with the LG prototype receiver and a RS double bow tie antenna facing the ESB. There was NOTHING between us and that building.
By walking in front of the antenna or standing to either side of it, in a particular spot, we could cause loss of signal. We had better luck in your apartment and that was a relief since, as you know, I wanted it to work.
Even with the reception problems I was very happy with that receiver and was tempted to ignore request from LG to return it. As you know we brought two more 5th gen LG Inotech receivers to your apartment later with less promising results. Both of which I still have. The main difference in these and the prototype was that the 5th gen chip was in the Inotech tuner can while with the protoype it was on the motherboard of the receiver.
Bob Miller
Bob wrote: > We could defeat that prototype by just walking in front of the antenna > or standing to either side in a particular position. I disagree -- at least as regards the tests of the LG 5th-generation box in my apartment. Here's the relevant section of my memo of July 22 in 2004:
"When I say 'reliably,' I mean not only that the pictures and sound were okay but that people could move around the room and I could move the antenna around without causing any breakup. It WAS possible for me to find an orientation where I could make it fail, but I really had to try, even on WNYW-DT, which could previously be received only with the antenna on the floor."
But I agree with Bob that what we tested does not yet appear to be available in any set-top box being sold. No receiver tested here before or since has worked as well -- and that includes Samsung's latest.
TTFN, Mark
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