[opendtv] Re: Euro Cars
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:31:44 -0800
Oops, replace "downstream" with "upstream."
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de John Willkie
Enviado el: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:33 PM
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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Euro Cars
Gee, I thought this was a list about digital media, not automobiles.
Have any fools hereabouts thought about how the decline in new GM car sales
will affect the uptake of XM Sirius, against the aggressive financing and
short-term debt obligations of the merged entity? While forcing all Sirius
users to adopt new radios?
None of the "usual suspects" seems to have pondered these. I've been
thinking about it for several weeks.
By the way, the physical/rf layer of M/H is simply 8-VSB. And, M/H has been
tested at speeds up to 125 mph. Broadcasters can implement M/H by adding a
new multiplexer in front of their 8-VSB encoder (plus a few other pieces of
gear downstream.)
The most interesting thing discussed here recently was the extraordinarily
long echoes encountered in the IDOV San Francisco tests, ones so long that
they greatly exceed the guard intervals of all other forms of modulation.
I'm glad to see that this news that "some of us" hereabouts read on or about
May 14 is coming to light.
I'm still pondering the physical conditions that would create such long
echoes. Must be a hell of a lot of reflections, and a hell of a lot of
power. Almost makes one wonder why such long echoes have not been
"reported" in DVB-land.
John Willkie
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De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Manfredi, Albert E
Enviado el: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:06 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Euro Cars
Dan Grimes wrote:
> The Chevy Malibu wagon is the US equivalent, but not really.
> Not in finish, handling and certainly no deisel engine.
The Saturns are supposedly retaining the Opel suspension tuning,
according to articles I read in Car and Driver. If your wife doesn't
like wagons, I'd stay away from wagons and try the Aura with maybe the
3.6 liter V-6.
The other little tid-bit is that the sequence was Opel Vectra -> Pontiac
G6 -> Saturn Aura -> Chevy Maibu -> Opel Insignia. In the sense that,
says Car and Driver, the Insignia has many of the Malibu tweaks in it.
Taste is a funny thing. You're right that Americans prefer Hondas and
Toyotas, in this vehicle category. To mine eyes, they are the most
bland-looking cars on the market.
Oh, and the Toyota Tundra doesn't take second place to anyone, when it
comes to gargantuan and blunt-nosed.
To tie this back to TV, Microtune just announced a diversity tuner for
automotive DTT applications, including ATSC and ATSC M/H. Supposedly
capable of 125 mph, although I'm not sure how a tuner alone can make
that claim.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=121862&p=irol-newsArticle&ID
=1233852&highlight=
The additional white paper and spec sheet don't really explain much,
regarding the speed claim.
Bert
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