Bert,You may be seriously underestimating the cost of an 8-VSB demod. The costs are not in the hardware, which would amount to a fraction of a penny if implemented as you say.
The costs are in the ridiculously high royalties paid to the patent holders of both the original consortium and to the nth generation "cold fusion" chipsets and intellectual property rights owners.
In the past on this list, I've heard the price of $40 just for all of the IP rights for an ATSC receiver.
John----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
So now all you can claim wasteful is the 8-VSB demod itself, *assuming* that demod is not integrated in with the tuner or MPEG decoder, at which point its cost becomes SERIOUSLY marginalized.
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