John Shutt wrote: >John, > >There are the Doug McDonalds in our market that just want everything in HD >HD HD HD and don't care about anything else. Most of these viewers now >subscribe to Comcast Digital Cable with HD service, and we are carried on >the HD tier. We are currently negotiating with Comcast to provide them with >a direct feed just as we currently do with our NTSC signal. > > > So you want people to PAY for your normally free service? O course, if you are like our local PBS TV stations, we PAY anyway, in the form of TAXES. >Then there are the viewers who lose us altogether when we have to go to >reduced power, who could instead be able to watch us in lower resolution if >we had those tools. > > And those viewers ... quite a large area ... who would have trouble if you used DVB-T instead of 8-VSB, and transmitted the same number of bits. Of course ... you would just say "reduce bits" but there goes the quality. My I suggest something to you: quit your job and go work for the BBC. Then you could listen to the complaints about the horrendous quality of their radio programming on DAB. Doug McDonald ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.