[opendtv] Re: Humax Ships $229 ATSC Set-Top Tuner
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 20:21:42 -0700
It's time to BREAK THOSE BOXES -- or you'll never be able to transmit more
than 8 EITs as long as those boxes are in use. Here in San Diego (much
higher ATSC penetration than any other US market) the standard is 36 hours
of EITs. The broken boxes -- if there were any, other than one loudmouth
owning a very cheap, early one and still defending the purchase -- just
don't exist.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Harvey" <tjharvey@xxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "John Golitsis"
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:00 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Humax Ships $229 ATSC Set-Top Tuner
> At our station, we limit the EIT/ETT tables to provide only 12 hours
> programming information at the moment. We have found that some boxes baulk
> when we hit 24 hours and beyond.
>
> To date, we have only found boxes that respond to only about 12 hours
> anyway, so it will be refreshing to see a receiver which will display
> beyond 12 hours.
>
> Does this receiver receive analog broadcasts as well? And if so, will it
> acquire the analog guide. We are inserting the program guide for our
analog
> station related to its TSID and ensuring the TSID is on line 21 field two
> of our analog transmission and have yet to see a dual analog/DTV receiver
> work as prescribed. Incidently, the venerable RCA DCT-100 displays the
> analog program guide but only referencing the analog carrier frequency in
> PSIP to it and not the analog TSID.
>
> And does the receiver display more of the program description in the ETT
> when transmitted? The ETT allows transmission of upwards of 2000 to 3000
> characters: the most I have seen in a set top box is about 200 characters
> before the ETT description is truncated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Terry Harvey
>
> At 11:29 AM 4/2/2005, Mark A. Aitken (Webmail) wrote:
>
> >I have yet to do field trials on this one, but I will say that these
folks
> >have done the best job yet on a 'real" and useful EPG based on PSIP. Full
2
> >week by all station (with current program preview) program listing. Now,
only
> >if Broadcasters would do a respectful job of getting PSIP right!m ;-) I
can
> >not speak fully for other parts of the country (yet) but our Baltimore
> >staitions have it right (as have our other stations AFAIK), and we are
the
> >only ones in this market! The CBS O&O has the wrong time (1 day of info
> >only),
> >and everyone else has the DST set wrong!
> >
> >Nicely built box, good "feel", and good consumer interface.
> >
> >A real deal at less than $200 if it works in most environments. We'll
see...
> >
> >Quoting John Golitsis <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Wow! J&R Music World is selling this for $199!
> > >
> > > http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=4022597
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "John Golitsis" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "OpenDTV" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:14 AM
> > > Subject: [opendtv] Humax Ships $229 ATSC Set-Top Tuner
> > >
> > >
> > > > Humax Ships $229 ATSC Set-Top Tuner
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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> >Regards,
> >
> >Mark A. Aitken
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