[opendtv] Re: China writes its own digital TV standard
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:56:35 -0400
The scuttlebutt is that no CE manufacturer, including LG, has any plans to
build an E-VSB receiver. Until A-VSB is evaluated, there is less than zero
incentive to do so.
Al Limberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 7:34 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: China writes its own digital TV standard
> Interlineated reply follows:
>
> Dale Kelly wrote:
>
> >>But, will such improvements, if implemented by broadcasters,
> >>ever see the light of day at our friendly Consumer Electronics
> >>outlets?
>
> Bert Wrote:
> >It's only because I keep hearing word-of-mouth accounts of how much
better
> >integrated receivers work than stand-alone STBs that I have any reason to
> >believe that the improvements we hear about ever make it to store
shelves.
>
> I'm unaware of these integrated receiver performance reports. However I
do
> tend to distrust such anecdotal chatter given what we know about widely
> varying performance results under different reception conditions.
>
> A couple of years ago I was advised by an engineer from Zarlink that
Cable
> Ready integrated receiver designs were lacking the selectivity required to
> operate in many OTA environments. That could have changed I suppose, but
> short of testing such devices under known OTA conditions, I wouldn't bank
on
> it.
>
> >Does anyone know if E-VSB has been incorporated in any receivers yet? It
> >might have been, and we're not likely to ever be told. For whatever
reason.
> >I'm willing to bet a lot of money you won't find E-VSB or Gemini chips in
> >any OTA-only STB, however.
>
> Good question, I don't know the answer though. My guess would be not
since,
> to my knowledge, E-VSB is not in broadcast use. Perhaps Zenith has done
> something stealthy.
>
> >But take heart, Dale. The situation is Europe is not all that different.
> >Aside from the DVB-H/DMB-T to cell phone hype, few people in most
European
> >countries know or (apparently) care about digital TV or DTT.
>
> I seem to recall a recent report of Freeview viewer ship eclipsing that
of
> analog OTA in Britain and where OTA viewer ship includes a significantly
> high percentage of households.
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