[opendtv] Re: Interesting Point
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:12:03 -0400
At 11:46 AM -0700 10/26/05, Tony Neece wrote:
> designed ATSC are brilliant men, not shills to some =
>corporate
>agenda.
If you had been a member of the ATSC progressive versus interlace
scanning task force, you would not be making such a misinformed
statement. It was a sad thing to see so many engineers working
vigorously to bend the truth in order to protect the investments
Japan made in the 1125/60 HDTV system.
If you had attended the ATSC demonstrations for Congress and the FCC
that I did, you would be questioning the technical integrity of these
demonstrations.
And then there was the chicanery that took place with the
side-by-side testing of COFDM and ATSC by MSTV, not to mention the
poorly constructed tests conducted by the FCC.
I found it to be a routine experience to see the engineers who were
putting the ATSC standard together, to:
1. Write technical papers that we at best misleading, and when fully
examined, to be completely misrepresentative of the facts;
2. To stage demonstrations that were complete distortions, typically
showing NTSC at its worst, and HDTV...
Uncompressed.
3. To pre-arrange the outcomes of public meetings and to limit the
input from and debate with "outside" engineering experts who attended
these meetings.
In short you are completely correct. They did a brilliant job of
controlling the standard process and sticking broadcasters with a
lemon, while they used the enabling technology to create a DBS
platform that has taken considerable market share from the cable
industry.
Regards
Craig
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