[U.S.]I want my digital TV!
NewsMan
manufacturers, beginning in 2004, include digital tuners in new TV sets. By
2007, every TV set larger than 13 inches must include the device, which
today costs upward of $500 and is used to receive digital TV signals over
the air. As consumers replace about 250 million sets in U.S. households,
they'll shell out more than $12 billion for the technology even if the cost
falls by 90 percent.
MOST CONSUMERS are asking, is it worth it? But perhaps the better
question is, do the tuners even work? Last month, a New York Times review of
digital TV technology noted offhandedly that a digital TV receiver placed in
a skyscraper succeeded in pulling in just three of New York's nine digital
stations. The Times' informal results echo more scientific findings. Testing
under a range of conditions in 1999, Sinclair Broadcasting found that TV
sets in just 11 of 31 locations in Philadelphia could successfully tune in
using the over-the-air DTV standard selected by the FCC. Sinclair - joined
by several other broadcasters - has repeatedly asked the commission for the
option to use the European DTV standard. Stations and viewers could choose
which system they liked best.
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irrelev...@wrongcountry.com
an article of no relevance to this country.
1.$500 USD is double what they cost here
e.g. you can buy a SDTV box for $450 Australian (teac)
2.digital tv is easier to pick up here than analogue in
an area covered by both.
3.skyscraper antennas have gain amplifiers which can filter out
certain channels seen as potential analogue interences,this filters
out digital stations (some not all).if you can pick up one digital
station in Australia then you can pick them all up unless you have
such a filter on your antenna system...the article fails to mention
this....in other words, the only reason for not picking up the other
stations was the out of date antenna system in the building...not the
digital system itself.
in short the article is crap and should be ignored.
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Bob Miller
<irrelev...@wrongcountry.com> wrote in message
news:3da1ff03.404169372@news-server...
>
> an article of no relevance to this country.
True this article has no relevance in Australia.
>
> 1.$500 USD is double what they cost here
> e.g. you can buy a SDTV box for $450 Australian (teac)
>
> 2.digital tv is easier to pick up here than analogue in
> an area covered by both.
True in Australia not in the US.
>
> 3.skyscraper antennas have gain amplifiers which can filter out
> certain channels seen as potential analogue interences,this filters
> out digital stations (some not all).if you can pick up one digital
> station in Australia then you can pick them all up unless you have
> such a filter on your antenna system...the article fails to mention
> this....in other words, the only reason for not picking up the other
> stations was the out of date antenna system in the building...not the
> digital system itself.
In the US the reason and the only reason that stations cannot be pickek up
is the 8-VSB modulation system.
>
> in short the article is crap and should be ignored.
In Australia not in the US. In the US this article in on point.
There are now 484 licenses in the US on channels 54, 55 and 59 that allow
COFDM modulation so things will change here.
Bob Miller