[opendtv] Re: HDTV-Brochure_2005final
- From: Mark Aitken <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:07:14 -0500
Touché!
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>At 5:26 PM -0500 1/18/05, Bob Miller wrote:
>
>
>>Barry,
>>
>>We were there as the designated "datacaster". The enemies of COFDM were
>>howling that not only was Sinclair trying to delay the digital
>>transition with a phony suggestion that COFDM was a better modulation
>>but that they wanted to use the spectrum for datacasting and low
>>resolution multicasting to mobile receivers at lower more robust bitrate.
>>
>>Congressman Billy Tauzin was demanding HDTV so I think that in their own
>>best interest Sinclair did not want to dilute the message that COFDM
>>could do HD better than 8-VSB.
>>
>>Mark is right. Probably was right then. We were more interested in
>>changing the conversation which would probably not have helped. In the
>>end it was the fraudulent test that did in COFDM.
>>
>>
>
>
>You were doing great up to the last sentence.
>
>COFDM never had a chance. Fraudlent tests were just a tactic. They
>NEVER let science or the laws of physics get in the way of the goal.
>
>Regards
>Craig
>
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Regards,
Mark A. Aitken Director, Advanced Technology
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