----- Original Message ----- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"The report wrote: > (b) there is no provision in the proposed ATSC standard for > auto-selection logic to have the DTV tuner default to the M/H DTV signal > only when the main DTV signal is not available.236 Therefore, at least for > the period of consideration used in this report (2008-2012), laptops are not > considered a M/H DTV business opportunity for broadcasters (but do > constitute an audience-expanding opportunity for the main DTV signal > which, in turn, could augment broadcaster advertising revenues)." Doe anybody understand this one? I don't see it essential to be in the standard as, first, there are yet no dual M/H laptop receivers and, second, a laptop receiver is probably software driven and could easily add this option if it seemed it would sell. Finally, even a very stupid user could probably decide to change to another (M/H) channel if the full channel could not be received. I'd personally rather be in control of the process."
The statement by the authors assumes that programming in the M/H channel is simply a simulcast of programming in the main channel. If this were the case, then this could also provide a low quality 'graceful degradation' for fixed receivers as well.
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