[opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
- From: "Dewey Weaver" <dweaver@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:38:41 -0400
John - I have loved possibilities of PSIP since day one. No matter how much
better the technology becomes, the main challenge is going to be motivating
station engineers, who have remained mostly indifferent, to properly
implement and maintain PSIP. (those who care know who they are). I don't
think that any of the products that leverage PSIP for EPG data reliably work
for all channels in a given market anywhere in the USA. Changing this is
going to take years, a lot of work and some type of motivation beyond "good
doggie".
Regards,
Dewey
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Willkie
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 1:28 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
Dewey;
PSIP (and PAT/PMT) needs to be dynamically implemented across the industry
if stations are ever to make full use of their slice of spectrum.
The ATSC PMCP protocol which is currently in candidate status and should be
adopted sometime this summer (I can say no more without violating the ATSC
NDA, as I am a member of the ATSC's T3/S1 subcommittee) will go a long way
to solving MANY if not most of the station problems with "metadata
management."
It will enable automation systems to populate tables on PSIP/metadata
generators, and enable traffic and automation systems to work with listing
services, etc.
There is even a movement afoot to expand the realm of PMCP (which is an XML
schema) to other devices, like multiplexers and the like.
All of this is very good, because it will no only enable handy engineers to
craft their own solutions, but will also enable stations to deploy services
dynamically even if they have little hard-core metadata experts on staff.
John Willkie
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dewey Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:33 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
John - facts are that we tuned indoors and some were happy, some were not.
No links to our video/pictures but several publications printed photos
including Electronic News, TechTV and Broadcasting and Cable.
Regarding new hardware revs - we're parked until our contract and
acquisition litigation with National Semiconductor is resolved. I don't
anticipate many new renditions of PC HDTV boards coming thanks the Broadcast
Flag and say buy one while they are still available. Its going to be a nice
legacy product to own should BF survive the legal battles and be
implemented. There is always fresh software should you ever decide to buy
accessDTV.
Regarding your promo for next year, do you think that PSIP can ever be
reliably implemented across the industry.
Dewey
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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Willkie
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:57 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
Yep, the article is all true. 2001 was the year that DTV took off. :-)
Do you have a web link to the video clip and pictures? That might help the
"truth surface," since the bell-ringer is not a technical item, and largely
contains rationalizations on why you needed to use coax to funnel in the
signal.
Wasn't the problem at the time with 8-VSB reception that it didn't work well
in an "RF soup" environment?
So, you offer faint praise: in an "RF soup" environment, accessDTV needs
industrial-strength help in picking out 8-VSB signals.
I had an interesting conversation with a software vendor selling PSIP and
other solutions to silicon vendors. The conversation wasn't about
modulation: it was about the new silicon solutions to PSIP issues, and the
first implementations of Directed Channel Change in consumer items will are
expected to be shown at next year's CES.
I may even have a directed channel change trick or two up my sleeve, which
might be shown a few weeks later.
Time to come out with version 2.0, Dewey. If you can.
John Willkie
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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dewey Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:35 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
Mark - Your pattern of responding with an insult is typical and tired but
expected when the truth surfaces. We still have video of your team tracing
our cables and unplugging the antenna coax in disbelief of what you were
seeing at CES 2001. We know about your dissing my company weeks later at the
DTV DC conference with Jim Goodmon of Capitol Broadcasting and Matt Miller
of NxtWave claiming that the CES demo, for which we won an award, was faked.
They admonished you but that never works with the shameless. The best part
of this episode at CES 2001 was Art Ross walking up for his meeting with us
while your ex-Navy Seal or Special forces enforcer (I cannot remember his
name for some reason) ranted about us needing to cancel our CBS meeting and
meet with Sinclair instead. In addition to Nat and the enforcer, you were
there as well. This may ring a bell -
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EKF/3_47/69278171/p1/article.jhtml. I
also have pictures if you want to press this further.
Len saw our technology in Raleigh at a launch party and we somehow got
through the screening when one of his venture companies, HowStuffWorks.com,
produced an effective and positive review on our product, accessDTV. It's
still selling product for us from their website so you want to do something
about that. http://www.howstuffworks.com/accessdtv.htm
Any more insults Mark?
Dewey
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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Aitken
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 9:26 AM
To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opendtv] Re: USDTV demos at NAB
Just to state "for the record"...
Sinclair has never been "anti-ATSC". As a follow-on question...just who
exactly were the members of this 'team'? Also, why would it be to
anyones dismay?
Mark
P.S. I once knew a company whose Law Firm was Dewey, Cheatem & Howe.
Any relation?
P.P.S. I know that some New England families have been represented by
Dewey, Dunkum & When. Ring a bell?
Dewey Weaver wrote:
>For my two cents worth - when accessDTV demo'd from Treasure Island, NAB
>2000, the Hilton Suites NAB and CES 2001 and Embassy Suites from 2002 CES,
>we were able to tune with a Silver Sensor or RS double bowtie (even when we
>put the antenna in the personal effects safe at the Hilton in 2001 -in
other
>words, the cable was the antenna as well). We also tuned from the show
>floor at CES 2001 much to the dismay of the anti-ATSC team deployed at the
>time by Sinclair.
>
>Dewey
>
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Regards,
Mark A. Aitken Director, Advanced Technology
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