Craig Birkmaier wrote: > Talk about three strikes... > > Strike 1 - a standard that perpetuates poor spectral efficiency while > failing to address real market needs - robust indoor reception with > simple antennas. mobility, and competition with, rather than reliance > on multi-channel services to reach consumers. You're such a broken record, Craig. Did you pay attention to the New Zealand DTT standard? No? Maybe you should. Just like here, they standadize on HDTV. Which means, every receiver must be compatible with HD signal streams, which avoids the need to simulcast. Funny, no one is complaining about that. But you sure did complain about that when the ATSC did this, over a dozen years ago. They use 64-QAM, 3/4 FEC, 1/16 GI. As close as you can get to 8-VSB spectral efficiency, and not particularly good for SFNs. Is anyone moaning about that? Nope. Oh, and indoor reception works fine with 8-VSB, and has done so since the 5th gen receivers came out. That was 2003. The difference is, when indoor reception is not perfectly reliable in COFDM countries, people put up an outdoor antenna and move on. Like Jeroen did, for instance. Over here, you have to hear all manner of moaning and whining. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.