[linux-dvb] Re: ATSC?

["Daniel Schmelzer" <dschmelzer@hotmail.com>]

Hi Dan--

ATSC over-the-air is quite widely available.  I can pick up 5 ATSC channels 
right now, for instance, with two more coming on line in May.  It looks 
fabulous on my projector.  Indeed, I sent some test streams over to the 
Metlzer brothers a year or two ago.

For satellite, there is less availability, but if you have a Dish 5000 plus 
ATSC modulator (pricey), SHO-HD and HBO-HD are available using any of the PC 
cards on the market.

For cable, there are at least two ways that it works and coverage is spotty. 
  Some cable companies (TWC in NYC, for instance) provide a full 6 MHz of 
analog bandwidth for at least one ATSC channel.  For digital cable, I think 
they use QAM modulation (?), which can picked up by the WinTV-HD (but not 
the others, IIRC).  Of course, I doubt that CAMs will be issued for it.

Good luck.

Regards--

Dan

>From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
>To: mocm@metzlerbros.de
>CC: Daniel Schmelzer <dschmelzer@hotmail.com>, <holger@convergence.de>,   
><mdz@debian.org>, <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: ATSC?
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:24:28 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 mocm@metzlerbros.de wrote:
> > So ATSC may fit in quite well. It is yet another frontend type (we
> > already have QPSK, QAM, OFDM) and the rest will also fit in.
> > The only trouble is that we Europeans probably won't be able to do it
> > by ourselves, so people in the USA will have to work on that stuff.
>
>The problem is that there is not really any ATSC broadcasts in north
>america yet. Widest availability is either satellite DVB (which is already
>supported obviously), or the strange mutation of digital cable used here
>which nothing seems to be able to interface to except the custom set-top
>boxes manufactured specifically for the north american cable companies.
>
>If anyone knows of PC hardware that can work on the north american digital
>cable system, I am "all ears".
>
>-Dan
>--
>[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
>




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