[opendtv] Re: How About Portable ATSC Receivers?
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:24:00 -0500
And SD COFDM receivers are down to $99 OZ and $76.40 US.
LG has little faith in the US market except for the MANDATE!!
Bob Miller
John Shutt wrote:
>Doug,
>
>Let me get this straight. Both COFDM and VSB need very high performance
>tuners. The cost of a high quality tuner is too expensive for LG to
>manufacture an ATSC STB for the US market of over 100 million TVHHs, but LG
>can manufacture an HD DVB STB for the 7 million TVHH Australian market?
>
>http://www.productreview.com.au/showitem.php?item_id=2785
>
>Something is wrong with either yours or LG's logic. My bet is that the
>quality of tuner required for COFDM is not the same as that required by an
>equally well performing ATSC box.
>
>John Shutt
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>>"Can-type tuner" ... COFDM needs that too, and as MSTV found out,
>>bad ones don't work. The front end requirements are no different
>>for VSB and COFDM.
>>
>>Hence, I think we can get a good take on this: the present tuners seem
>>to work just except for Mark Schubin. Unless there is a govenment
>>requirement for better ones, or a goverenment requirement for
>>a careful labelling for several tuner-type performance parameters,
>>the limiting factor for Mark Schubin will be the "can-type tuner",
>>since nobody will build boxes with better ones. COFDM would not help
>>this.
>>
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