[opendtv] Re: Digital TV: Brazil to Adopt Anything But the American System
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:24:59 -0500
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>John Shutt wrote:
>
>
>
>>As it turned out, the problems weren't so easily
>>fixed, and we probably would have been further ahead
>>in the transition if the Sinclair petition were
>>adopted back in 1999-2000.
>>
>>
>
>You may be right, but "as it turns out," the fix was in fact devised
>several years ago, and for whatever set of reasons, it's still not
>available on store shelves *in OTA-only boxes*.
>
>
What fix? The closest thing to a fix was the 5th gen prototype and it
was marginal with NO possibility of mobile and iffy portable. There was
and is NO fix for 8-VSB. There is however a NEW rumor of a fix for 8-VSB
as usual 2-4 years out.
Bob Miller
>Where are the 4th gen Micronas OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
>
>Where are the 5th gen LG OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs? (They continue to
>offer quite happily only 3rd gen devices or OTA.)
>
>Where are the STMicroelectronics OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
>
>Where are the Samsung Gemini chip OTA STBs, PVRs, and DVDRs?
>
>Where is the outrage from broadcasters that these products are being
>held in some secret vault?
>
>
I believe this has been correctly explained to you a hundred times. You
just don't get it.
>As to "the rest of the world," we have seen at least two obvious
>examples of solutions that are global. And clearly, as long as demods
>are still provided as separate chips, this will be the case for
>virtually *any* DTT product out there. Offer something in DVB-T, you can
>offer the same box in ATSC. So that old song just doesn't ring true
>anymore.
>
>
IF ONLY any of this were true!!! I wish.
>To an outsider like me, this sounds like excuses for doing nothing. To
>an outsider like me, mention of DVB-T is a smokescreen. I'm not even
>saying that in many scenarios, DVB-T wouldn't be "better." It very
>likely could be. I'm simply saying that we have ATSC, we have "miracle
>chips" that finally work, so why aren't broadcasters at very least
>pushing to get these improved products out to the public? You can keep
>harping about DVB-T at the same time.
>
>
Miracle only in the context of former 8-VSB chips not in anything like
state of the art.
Bob Miller
>Bert
>
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