[opendtv] Re: Technology years
- From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:32:00 -0500
Bert,
That is the whole point, isn't it? DVB-T works with cheap tuners. DVB-T
works with cheap chipsets. You can't cripple the receiver using off the
shelf parts.
Pace, Nokia, and others were ready and willing to bring a 6MHz box to market
in the US as soon as the Sinclair petition to allow COFDM modulation was
approved by the FCC. They testified to that during the comment phase of the
Sinclair petition. I seem to recall that if the petition were approved by
July, Pace said they would have product on store shelves by Christmas.
The number of manufacturers in the DVB-T market would have given the US
market a much broader selection of STBs. The fact that DVB-T chipsets, that
worked and worked very well, were available by many manufacturers, products
for Europe appeared much sooner than here in the US, and if we had switched
8 years ago, we would have had them as well.
How do I assume this? Europe had the first DVB-T receivers integrated into
a USB thumbdrive sized package. It wasn't until three years later the first
ATSC ones appeared in our market. Europe had the first integrated portable
DVD player/DVB-T/PAL with 8" LCD screen. There still is no ATSC equivalent.
And finally, just look at the variety of receivers, STBs, and DVRs with
integrated tuners that are available for the Australian market, with around
12 million TVHHs. The variety is staggering!
You are a systems guy, Bert, and all you care about is maximizing bits per
Hz as an intellectual exercise. I am a broadcaster and I care about the
number of bits received.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
After 2003, it became obvious that whoever (plural) has been keeping
4th/5th gen stuff in short supply for so many years could just as easily
have done that with COFDM. Or crippled US COFDM boxes with cheap tuners or
other tricks.
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