[opendtv] Re: Integrated DTV PSIP
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 15:29:52 -0500
No. Good question, though! After I attended an early demo at Philips
Labs, I REALLY wanted to take the prototype home.
TTFN,
Mark
Benham, Cliff wrote:
>Out of sheer curiosity, was any testing of the analog 'ghost =
>cancellation test signal' receiving equipment=20
>ever done at the Schubin apartment using just an indoor antenna?
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>Sent: Wed 12/7/2005 1:51 PM
>To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [opendtv] Re: Integrated DTV PSIP
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>John Shutt wrote:
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>>I'll let mark speak to the properties (or lack thereof) of the NTSC =
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>ghosts
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>>he receives at his apartment.
>>=20
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>I think Bert nailed it pretty well. There are unquestionably ghosts --
>in the canyons of Manhattan, how could there not be? -- but they are
>pretty close and, therefore, relatively innocuous. They don't even
>interfere with reading text in commercials. There is no signal-strength
>issue with my analog reception, so the only thing keeping the pictures
>from being studio grade is the ghosts. NTSC reception with a set-top
>antenna remains very good. ATSC reception with a set-top antenna,
>except for the LG 5th-generation box, is spotty to non-existent.
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>For what it's worth, during the brief period of DTT from the World Trade
>Center (which was an earlier era of boxes), the problems seemed
>comparable. That was more like six miles rather than two.
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>TTFN,
>Mark
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