[opendtv] Re: Colombia and Argentina
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:24:51 -0400
ATSC has improved only for fixed reception when everyday that goes by
mobile and portable reception become more important for OTA. I don't
think any South American country ever really considered ATSC. They
only pretended to for political reasons.
The only countries that now have ATSC have it either because of
fraudulent testing, common borders or because, in the case of Korea,
one of their largest companies has more pull with its government than
its broadcasters did.
Maybe I will pack all the pleading for help emails I receives over a
number of years from Korean broadcasters trying to wiggle out of ATSC
and put them in an archive someday.
There is no country that now is using ATSC that choose it legitimately
or after due consideration or proper testing.
Bob Miller
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Blaine Russell <russellbc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My first post here, I have been a long time reader of the OpenDTV archive
> and have really enjoyed what I have learned reading your comments.
>
> Very interesting development.
>
> I would have thought that Colombia's anouncement combinded with Uruguay's
> early decision to use DVB-T would have made Agentina more likely to go with
> DVB-T then SBTVD/ISDB-T.
>
> I think that these two developments will make it much harder for any other
> countries in South America to consider ATSC.
>
> I may be mistaken but I think that if ATSC ends up being a North American
> only format then it will rereduce the enonomies of scale to implement new
> inovations. Kind of along the lines of the what happerned to TDMA in the
> Cellular world or SECAM in the colour TV fromat world.
>
> It is unfortunate because ATSC recivers have for the last year or so
> finally seemed to finally have adequate reception.
>
> Colombia DVB-T Anouncement in English at DVB.org
>
> http://www.dvb.org/news_events/news/colombia_adopts_dvbt/index.xml
>
>> Subject: [opendtv] Colombia and Argentina
>> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:53:28 -0400
>> From: albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx
>> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Looks like Colombia has decided to go DVB-T and that Argentina is about
>> to (or probably has, by now) signed a letter of intent to go with the
>> Brazilian SBTVD (a derivative of the Japanese ISDB-T), as Jonas already
>> reported.
>>
>> http://www.bernabauer.com/colombia-adota-o-padrao-dvb-argentina-estuda-p
>> adrao-brasileiro/
>>
>> http://www.csa.fr/actualite/communiques/communiques_detail.php?id=127189
>>
>> Looks like these decisions and agreements are all made, or at least
>> signed, at the head-of-state level.
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
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