[opendtv] Re: Legacy receivers
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:34:46 -0500
On 11/14/06, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Schubin wrote:
> The legacy-receiver problem with repeaters is minor compared
> to the legacy-receiver problem with dual-stream audio. There's
> a legacy-receiver problem with 720-active-pixel lines (THE
> international standard). There's a legacy-receiver problem
> with MPEG-2.
>
> There are still legacy receivers freezing due to legal
> video-format changes.
I see this sort of legacy receiver problem as a generic problem with
digital receivers everywhere, sooner or later. It has to be dealt with
no matter where you happen to live.
In the UK, the first tough nut is to move from 2K to 8K COFDM. That
obsoletes all the original ONdigital boxes, I believe. And after HD is
introduced, in Europe, if they should ever want to quit simulcasting SD
and HD, that will create another upheaval.
Over here, if broadcasters get into OCRs in a big way, same sort of
thing will happen with older or even marginal new receivers. Or AVC. Or
other MPEG modes.
That's why the STB market will probably exist at various times. I don't
think it's sensible to use each occasion as an excuse to lobby for
starting from scratch with an all new standard.
But that is what is happening in the UK with no problem. They are
switching standards and legacy receivers are not going to be an issue.
They are going from a 2K standard to an 8K standard that is
incompatible.
That is the point. In the UK they are doing what we say CAN'T be done.
Legacy receivers are not and will not be a problem anywhere else but
the US.
In the US they are a problem because of the political BS that
surrounds our modulation.
We can't do or even consider doing what others are doing and will do
as a matter of course because of US political considerations. In other
countries the primary consideration is what is best. What is the best
thing technically that can be done now and should be do it.
In the US the decision still rest with corrupt political deals that
must be kept that date from the early 90's. No consideration can be
given to the question what is the best thing we can do, what is the
right thing to do. It doesn't even come up.
Bob Miller
Bert
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