[opendtv] Re: EETimes.com - DVB ponders next-gen terrestrial DTV standard
- From: Bob Miller <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:35:44 -0500
Albert Manfredi wrote:
>Kon Wilms wrote:
>
>
>
>>>If the only problem is a perceived lack of interest in DTT in
>>>the US, these bean counters will not change their tune JUST
>>>BECAUSE the modulation isn't 8-VSB. They would continue
>>>to make the boxes unavailable.
>>>
>>>
>>Well the obvious flaw in this statement is that there are ample
>>DVB-T boxes already on the market. From the standpoint of
>>'global trade' this would work quite nicely. Worst case - if the
>>bean counters didn't support rolling out STBs, people would
>>always find a way to grey import or sell old gen STBs locally.
>>One man's junk is another man's treasure..
>>
>>
>
>Point is, Kon, all those boxes out ther wouldn't meet our requirements. Even
>with DVB-T, we would have 6 MHz channels and 24/30/60 frame and field rates.
>So DVB-T boxes would have to be built for the US market.
>
>That's when the same bean counters as before would say, "Gee, there lets'
>just move everyone in the US over to cable and DBS instead of 'investing'
>what it takes to make a US variant."
>
>As I said before, these same CE vendors that sell all those DVB-T boxes
>could very easily *today* build ATSC boxes, if they had any mind to serve
>the US DTT market. The differences are so small.
>
>Bert
>
Yes for instance LG could build ATSC STBs if they wanted to. So could
Nokia, Pace and a hundred others who have specifically and with good
reason avoided 8-VSB like the plague. And everyone of them would be
falling all over themselves to supply the US with oodles of DVB-T or T2
receivers the day it was announced that the US could use such a modulation.
Meeting US requirements wold be no problem. Nokia made 300 6 MHz
receivers for us in a couple of months with no market.
Bob Miller
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