[opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
- From: John Willkie <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:22:11 +0000 (GMT+00:00)
you just haven't talked to enough people about it.
I'll provide just ONE example. An open DTV member (who hasn't posted but maybe
once in 6 years) who has a high-level engineering job at one of the major U.S.
networks and knows an awful lot about the technology in practical and
theoretically, told me last year: "I won't say it on OpenDTV, but COFDM has
many advantages over 8-VSB; however I have to make a business with 8-VSB."
I agreed on both points, and I even mentioned the inferior nature of NTSC, of
which I've known since my first survey course in broadcasting in 1972.
The irony goes deeper, but that would require me to remove the "lurker's"
cloak. And, he's not the only high-level network engineer with whom I've had
that conversation (another one on the SAME day, just a few crosstown Manhattan
blocks from this engineer's office. Both have participated in ATSC activities,
and the employers are ATSC members.
Unlike some, they're too busy to sit around and blow smoke about what "could"
or even "should" have been. Take out the "blowing smoke" and you have
Sinclair's position; but then one has to contemplate the political, as opposed
to engineering, realities.
John Willkie
-----Original Message-----
>From: John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 23, 2006 3:15 PM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Truthiness 2
>
>Nobody at the ATSC, or anybody who toiled long and hard on the underlying
>standards, will ever admit they made a grievous error in choosing a single
>carrier high symbol rate transmission scheme.
>
>Nor will they ever admit that DVB is head and shoulders above ATSC as an
>underlying data standard, even as they continue to scramble to add more
>DVB-like features to ATSC. Look for new public announcements on that front
>at this year's NAB.
>
>I have said over and over again, and I will repeat it one more time: Even
>if a miracle chipset appeared that did all that was claimed back in 1999,
>I'd still prefer DVB-T over ATSC simply because of the immense flexibility
>afforded to the BROADCASTER.
>
>John
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Aitken (Work @ Home)" <maitken@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>> Ah...the 64000 dollar question...!!!
>
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