[opendtv] DVB-H vs T-DMB real world comparisons of technology and economics
- From: dermot nolan <dermot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:54:54 +0100 (CET)
I thought you might all be interested in this: a detailed
technical/economic/cost comparison of DVB-H and T-DMB.
<http://www.dvb-h-online.org/PDF/060130.DVB-H%20vs%20T-DMB%20System%20Comparison.pdf>
Bottom line: DVB-H trounces T-DMB in real world applications, and, of course,
historically pay-tv platforms with the highest throughput always win (eg SES
Astra vs BSB, 1991 and SkyDigital vs ITVDigital, 2002).
I have been lurking on opendtv for some time and its interesting to see the
same old arguments trotted out by the usual suspects on ATSC versus DVB-T six
years down the line. However, as I predicted in 2000, the DVB-T system would
sweep the board. It has outside the US, the Freeview business model works,
there are 10.0M receivers in use in the UK, it costs £12M pa to get on
Freeview as a channel provider (Three times an SES Astra transponder!!!) and
the £29 DTV adapter is available. I use the Hauppauge stick on my laptop
nowadays which is about 2 inches long.
I see that Brazil has yet to choose a system too but it won't be 8VSB. ($$$ as
usual!!!).
The most interesting situation in the US will be the coming of the xOFDM
systems from Modeo and MediAFLO later this year: their receivability and ease
of use will make the ATSC system look decidely primitive (of course the number
of 8VSB DTV users remains small).
And the OTA TV franchise in the US looks shakier than ever as DVB-H and
MediaFLO enabled services muscle in.
Now back to lurking...
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