[opendtv] Re: News: DTV Boxes Could Cost $1 Billion
- From: Kon Wilms <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 20:28:21 -0700
Bob Miller wrote:
> John Golitsis wrote:
>>>I don't want to be too much of a party pooper but we should remember
>>>that many of us on this list were very elated a year or so ago because
>>>of the Linx results. And yet, for some reason, they are not yet on the
>>>market.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> According to the visiting LG engineers that was an incompatible version
> of 8-VSB that was mobile. I have no idea what was involved to make that
> video but it still freaked out at each overpass. Otherwise worked on an
> open expressway.
Right. It topped out at 9Mbits (or was it 12, I forget). Anyhow, the
only thing viable on it was Windows Media 720p @ 6Mbits, and a second
feed @ VBR.
And even that was a bear to get working (I sat with the Tandberg and
SpectraRep guys trying to get the Windows server to spit out packets at
an MTU the Tandberg box could accept) -- Windows Media HD likes to
jumbosize ethernet frames when it reaches a certain bitrate, as a way of
getting around burstiness (most probably due to limitations within
windows' scheduler).
Cheers
Kon
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