[opendtv] Re: Sixty-three TV stations to launch mobile DTV service this year
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:38:53 -0800
Tom;
I read the assertion in the summer in a forum that forbids participants from
disclosing communications or deliberations. I (silently) assumed the person
was wrong, so I reviewed all the documents I had access to, in the state
they were in. I had to conclude that they were correct, and a few nits have
been removed since then.
By the way, the ATSC didn't chose the Harris/LG proposal over the
Samsung/Rohde&Schwarz one. That was done by another body, after reviewing
the IDOV report. The ATSC's job was to make it all work.
John Willkie
-----Mensaje original-----
De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Tom Barry
Enviado el: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:56 PM
Para: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Sixty-three TV stations to launch mobile DTV service
this year
John -
I had not considered all the implications but can easily believe you are
correct on this.
- Tom
John Willkie wrote:
> I guess I've been following this closer than all but a few members of this
> list.
>
> E-VSB is likely to be the only mobile broadcast standard approved by the
> U.S, to the extent that it 1) is a MOBILE broadcast standard and 2) exists
> at all.
>
> As a practical matter, E-VSB required changes in the A/53 standard. Alas,
> M/H doesn't require or involve any changes in A/53 to operate as planned,
> hence ATSC M/H doesn't require any approval by the FCC. Basically, the
> transmission involves data encapsulation on null packets. No FCC
permission
> is required to transmit null packets, and the maximum bandwidth that one
can
> devote to M/H still leaves ample room to send an SDTV-quality signal (plus
> audio), plus PSI + psip).
>
> To the best of my knowledge, no petition to start the process of FCC
> approval has even been considered by the relevant parties.
>
> The potential holdups are on the receiver/cell phone vendor side, not in
the
> realm of regulation.
>
> "Game changer" in several regards.
>
> Something is happening here ...
>
> Or, I can throw it back to you. Just what in the candidate standard makes
> you think that FCC approval is necessary?
>
> John Willkie, who followed the stops on this (with help) and came to his
> conclusión vis a vis FCC approval in mid-summer, 2008.
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
> nombre de John Shutt
> Enviado el: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:08 PM
> Para: OpenDTV
> Asunto: [opendtv] Sixty-three TV stations to launch mobile DTV service
this
> year
>
> Seeing as the only mobile standard thus far approved by the FCC for use is
> E8-VSB, I wish all the best to the OMVC.
>
> John
>
>
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/sixty-three-stations-launch-mobile-dtv-
> service-0113/
>
> Sixty-three TV stations to launch mobile DTV service this year
> Jan 13, 2009 8:12 AM
>
> The first wave of mobile digital television broadcasting will break in
2009
> with the commitment of broadcasters to launch mobile DTV across 63
stations
> in 22 markets, covering 35 percent of U.S. television households, the Open
> Mobile Video Coalition said.
>
> During an OMVC press conference Jan. 8 at the International Consumer
> Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the alliance of broadcasters backing mobile
> DTV announced that 14 of the stations will be NBC affiliates, nine ABC
> affiliates, nine CBS affiliates, five FOX affiliates, nine ION Television
> affiliates, four CW affiliates and four MyNetworkTV affiliates. Nine
> additional PBS stations are in discussions with the OMVC to join the 2009
> launch.
>
> The OMVC put on a live demonstration of mobile DTV broadcasting to show
the
> feasibility of the ATSC Mobile DTV Candidate Standard. Several Las Vegas
TV
> stations broadcast a variety of programming using transmission equipment
> from Harris to ATSC-compliant mobile devices made by LG Electronics and
> Samsung Electronics.
>
> The OMVC and ATSC recently announced acceptance of a Candidate Standard
for
> mobile DTV that will be tested in multiple market trials during 2009,
> revised as needed and proposed as a final standard by midyear.
>
> For more information, visit www.omvc.org.
>
>
>
>
>
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