[opendtv] Re: LG launches 6th gen ATSC digital TV broadcast receiver chipset
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:53:37 -0700
Mark;
Are you alluding to the A-VSB proposal requiring all packets (including
those with PSIP) having adaptation fields?
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: LG launches 6th gen ATSC digital TV broadcast
receiver chipset
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> > Mark Schubin wrote:
> >
> >> Hype is hype, even if the product being hyped is actually good.
> >>
> > There's a difference between hype and FUD.
> >
> > The FUD a few short years ago was that if a "tuner mandate" was to be
> > established, the result would be that CE manufacturers would incorporate
the cheapest possible, poor performing receivers just to meet the mandate.
> What makes you think they haven't? LG engineers brought a
> "5th-generation" prototype STB to my apartment in mid-2004. It
> successfully received all DTT channels reliably via a set-top antenna.
> No receiver that has been brought to my apartment since then has been
> able to do so.
>
> > If performance can be improved while reducing the cost of the final
> > product, that's obviously the road the manufactuers will take.
> And, if the cost of the product can be reduced still further by reducing
> quality, that's another road manufacturers often take. Those who've
> shot HDTV for a long time say the highest picture quality was with the
> 1-inch-format Sony HDC-500 and Canon HV12x12 lens. HDTV cameras and
> lenses have gotten smaller, lighter, and less expensive with 2/3-inch
> models, but they haven't gotten higher in quality; instead, they've gone
> lower (and lower still with 1/2-inch and 1/3-inch models).
>
> As for hype and FUD being different, perhaps you're right; I just
> noticed both being exuded in the service of MPH at NAB in Las Vegas,
> where it was implied that A-VSB couldn't do a single-frequency network
> (they demonstrated it), had lower throughput (as demonstrated at NAB, it
> had higher), and couldn't handle PSIP (as a result of an easily changed
> phrase in the standard).
>
> TTFN,
> Mark
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