The local Bay Area PBS station, KQED-DT is now using 528x480 on all it's SD sub-channels (four in the daytime, three and a pretty poor HD sub-channel after 8pm). Ron John Shutt wrote: >Unless the FCC reversed itself with more recent rulings, when they adopted >the FCC rules they adopted A/53 in total with the exception of table 3. > >720x480 can legally be used in broadcast ATSC, however it is caveat >transmitto. > >John > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Mark worked > > >>unsuccessfully to get the ATSC to allow a simple addition to Table 3 >>- i.e. 720 x 480 in both pixel aspect ratios. For those who may not >>be aware, Table 3 only allows 704 x 480 formats. This simple, MPEG-2 >>conformant change was vetoed in the ATSC because some early decoder >>implementations were "hard wired" to Table 3. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.