At 11:46 AM -0700 10/26/05, Tony Neece wrote: > designed ATSC are brilliant men, not shills to some = >corporate >agenda. If you had been a member of the ATSC progressive versus interlace scanning task force, you would not be making such a misinformed statement. It was a sad thing to see so many engineers working vigorously to bend the truth in order to protect the investments Japan made in the 1125/60 HDTV system. If you had attended the ATSC demonstrations for Congress and the FCC that I did, you would be questioning the technical integrity of these demonstrations. And then there was the chicanery that took place with the side-by-side testing of COFDM and ATSC by MSTV, not to mention the poorly constructed tests conducted by the FCC. I found it to be a routine experience to see the engineers who were putting the ATSC standard together, to: 1. Write technical papers that we at best misleading, and when fully examined, to be completely misrepresentative of the facts; 2. To stage demonstrations that were complete distortions, typically showing NTSC at its worst, and HDTV... Uncompressed. 3. To pre-arrange the outcomes of public meetings and to limit the input from and debate with "outside" engineering experts who attended these meetings. In short you are completely correct. They did a brilliant job of controlling the standard process and sticking broadcasters with a lemon, while they used the enabling technology to create a DBS platform that has taken considerable market share from the cable industry. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.