[linux-dvb] Re: ATSC

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

Hi Dan--

Your knowledge is incomplete. ;-)  A lot of areas get the full 19 Mbps ATSC 
stream on cable via either 8VSB or QAM64/256 by a variety of companies in 
both the US and Canada.  Even AT&T/TCI puts out a channel of ATSC over 8VSB 
in parts of Chicago.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99538

And ATSC isn't confined to HDTV with DD5.1, although that's where it's best 
used.

Regards--

Dan

>From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
>To: Daniel Schmelzer <dschmelzer@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-dvb@linuxtv.org
>Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: ATSC
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:52:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Daniel Schmelzer wrote:
> > Apparently, TWC encrypts their QAM256 signal, but in some markets sends 
>out
> > 8VSB.  Other companies may send the signal in the clear.
>
>I don't know anyone doing 8VSB over north american cable system yet, it
>appears to be reserved for HDTV. TCI certainly is not doing 8VSB.
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MPG.14e1f81875ce546b9896cc%40news.direct.ca&output=gplain
>
>FWIW the cable operators compress the holy living shit out of their
>channels so what the customer ends up receiving looks something like
>realvideo over a 56k dialup connection.
>
>I gave up on TCI digital cable because the quality was so horrible, and
>went back to analogue. There is more chroma noise but the terrible
>compression artifacts are gone.
>
>-Dan
>--
>[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
>




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