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New sets should be monitors only, with an upgradable OTA plug in. When ATSC was released it was based on MPEG2, the same as DVDs. It was already behind MPEG4. Why not have a system where the broadcasters can upgrade their equipment and transmit changes to the tuner?
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Cable in my area insists on their STB, and with that MPEG-4 for HD. The SD QAM is still MPEG2, but entirely encrypted meaning either way, a set top box, and another less than adequate remote that can barely control 1/2 of what I need on the TV itself. The required set top box is sold on a two year programming "commitment" which is a nice way of saying "contract". |
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...and the specific warranty exclusion clause.
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It wouldn't surprise me to see ATSC (and converter boxes) gone soon, as today's generation couldn't care less about any technology more than a few minutes old. Just browse CraigsList and see what iPad2's, or last year's video game consoles are going for. Or look in my living room at the FOUR Sony plasma XBR TVs, which sold for $18,000 each in 2004, and which I picked up between $0 and $250 in good working order.
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Hi to all,
It looks as though broadcast standards are being "updated" as fast as commercial software. Case in hand: the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial) over here in France (Europe). In 2005 we had MPEG-2 encoding, 6 multiplex signals in a 8 MHz UHF channel. Resolution was SD + a few HD channels, 3 to a UHF channel. In Dec 2012, we got 6 new HD channels, this time encoded in MPEG-4. a new digital tuner is needed to receive these channels. Some other European countries have adopted the more advanced DVB-T2 encoding scheme which is incompatible with our domestic system. Now there is talk about adopting Hvec encoding, more efficient, but incompatible. And now - Stop the Press! should there be a terrestrial delivery system for OTA 4K resolution? Conclusion: every 2-3 years you need to change your tuner. In America, you've had ATSC HD since 1993, that's not a bad track record in today's world... Best Regards jhalphen Paris/France |
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Most people did not know about it until 2007 or later, and there were almost half as many in 1993 that did know about it as there are now that still don't know about it.
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Technology as a whole is really starting to depress me. I was so busy lamenting over the loss of CRT TVs in stores that I nearly didn't realize that rear projectors (Even DLP!!!) are now gone from the shelves, too! Cell phones being replaced every year, TVs failing after three years, and now this...I wish it would all just SLOW DOWN.
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Back on topic, I don't care if I see a program in 405 line British or ASTC Hi-Def telelvisiomn, the content and story are the most important to me.
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If some politicians who wrote a law(/tax) that is beginning to royally mess up health insurance weren't in the pocket of the pharmaceuticals that law might have actually had ONE good aspect to it...I wonder how lobbing (bribery) expenditures of the pharmaceuticals compares to research spending?.... The FCC is similarly screwed up. Instead of regulating the airwaves to prevent signal conflicts, preventing broadcast standards changes that obsolete equipment currently in use, etc like they did when they were run by engineering minded folks, it is instead all about the money they can get from the cellphone, etc companies by selling bandwidth, and which political buts they can kiss.
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The thing to remember is that they might try to address the shortcomings of ATSC 1.whatever. Or, I'm just being foolishly optimistic.
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I don't think I have watched much that was not ATSC since late 2000, and that was mostly football games in the early 2000s, other than when I had a satellite-TV subscription until late 2005.
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