[opendtv] Why we are not free...

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:21:22 -0400

At 10:21 AM -0400 9/24/06, Stephen W. Long wrote: 


What is particularly illuminating to me at least as to the reason why COFDM
was never seriously considered by the FCC engineering staff.  Over drinks
one evening an engineer told me COFDM was never considered because it would
take them two to three years to re-compute the adjacent market interference
and power allocations.  When Sinclair started doing their public tests, the
staff engineers would never consider a change to COFDM because the 8VSB
decision that had already been made. It was never about COFDM not being a
better choice, it was about it was too inconvenient to recalculate radiation
patterns and interference.


Yup. I alluded last week when talking about the downside of regulation and the INABILITY of the FCC to do the right thing when it came to choosing a replacement for NTSC.

It is best to think of agencies such as the FCC as speed governors on innovation.

Now just imagine the mess we will have when Congress passes new legislation (possibly this week or during the lame duck session after the elections) to allow the FCC to require the use of the DTV and Digital Radio Broadcast Flags. I can't wait for the FCC to get into the business of regulating the design of computers and a wide range of consumer electronics products...

Regards
Craig


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