[opendtv] Re: Interesting Point
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 08:26:04 -0400
One of the saddest things to me is how non-professional engineering has
become. When I was younger one could pretty much count on what an engineer
said was the truth. If it wasn't, it was usually because the guy had made
an honest mistake. There certainly seems to have been a cultural shift.
Possibly it came about because financial types replaced engineers in
corporate management. Maybe because engineers are no longer farm boys.
The dishonesty even crops up internally within an organization, I am told.
Al Limberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 10:12 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Interesting Point
> 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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