[opendtv] Re: NAB forms DTV transition team
- From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:42:13 -0500
Dale Kelly wrote:
but you must also make the distinction between can work and
does work, in your arguments.
Let me make that more positive.
I think that 5th gen receivers "as is" do work well enough for the
transition to be ended. And I say this in part because of reports of real
devices, and in part because we have ended our own transition already, with
3rd gen receivers, indoor and outdoor antennas, with no heroic measures. We
no longer use analog TV stations.
Furthermore, shutting off the super powerful analog stations can only help
improve everyone's digital reception, even with older receivers. I wouldn't
be at all surprised if the majority of reception problems now were caused by
a digital station being adjacent to a much stronger analog station.
Furthermore, digital transmitter antennas are now often in the less than
ideal location. Lower tower than the analog, or on the side, or otherwise
compromised. So what there is can probably be improved with relatively small
effort even without improving receivers.
Furthermore, I'm fully confident that receivers will continue to improve,
because we already know some things that can be done to improve them,
specifically in the training area, and because innovations such as A-VSB are
coming on line.
Lastly, there's nothing like the imperative of making things work in the
here and now to get it done.
Bert
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