Here is a decent history of Taiwan and 8-VSB. I noticed that the ATSC kept Taiwan on their site as an ATSC country long after Taiwan had officially switched. They may still list them as ATSC. What does that mean? I doubt if Taiwan is paying its ATSC dues. http://www2.rfsworld.com/StayConnected/index_ie2.html?ns_head.html&http://www2.rfsworld.com/StayConnected/broadcast/broadcast_0303_2.html "In 1998, a formal decision was made for Taiwan to adopt the US ‘advanced television systems committee’ (ATSC) digital standard. Based on 8-vestigial side-band (8-VSB) technology, ATSC appeared at the time to be a logical choice, given its ready application to 6-MHz channels and the NTSC standard being used for analogue TV." And.... "After changing the pilot station equipment from 8-VSB to DVB-T devices, it was found that the problem of multi-path interference was largely solved,” says Chung. By the end of June 2001, Taiwan had reversed its original decision and adopted the DVB-T standard." Bob Miller John Willkie wrote: >Three is greater than five. sure. But, did you note that aside from MBC, >the web site you pointed me to, no broadcaster outside of Seoul had >transmitters? I said that there were only three channels for the entire >country. I am corrected: Seoul has five -- per that web site -- and the >rest of the country has just one, a live retransmission of what's being >shown on MBC in Seoul. > >My point was that Tijuana -- a third world city of 2.5 million -- has more >media diversity than the countries I mentioned. Funny you can only nip >around the edges of that. And, I can only presume that you now concede >Taiwan to be ATSC country. I note that not everybody thinks Taiwan is a >country. > >John > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:23 AM >Subject: [opendtv] Re: A detail in the history of video standards > > > > >>John Willkie wrote: >> >> >> >>>I count at best 5 TV stations >>>in Seoul. >>> >>> >>> >>Five is more than three, and Seoul is a city, not a country. >> >> >> >>>I spent only about 30 >>>seconds to refute your web site. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Believe what you'd like. >> >>TTFN, >>Mark >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.