[BC] TV Standards

[DANA PUOPOLO]

It was six months.

The problem with COFDM was that since the rest of the world uses 8 Mhz TV
channels (on UHF; unlike the U.S., they required those transmitting color to
do with better transmitters on a new band and with wider channels, this is why
European color TV has always been over 600 lines of resolution), the US uses 6
mHz channels (because we never bothered to upgrade earlier, see above).

COFDM had to be modified to fit in the smaller channel; this took six months
to accomplish. By then the "Grand Alliance" (What's a camel; a horse designed
by committee!) had decided to move forward with 8-VSB, refusing to give COFDM
any more consideration. Sinclair Broadcasting, one of the bigger TV groups
tried to persuade the FCC to allow both systems; their pleas fell upon deaf
ears.

-D 

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:39:46 AM PDT
From: Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: [BC] TV Standards

At 08:27 AM 10/18/2005, DANA PUOPOLO wrote
>Look at what the HDTV 'Grand Alliance' did. Because they refused to wait SIX
>MONTHS, we got saddled with 8 VSB HDTV, which as about a quarter as robust
as
>COFDM, the system the rest of the world adopted.
>
>Because they couldn't wait, our HDTV system is INTERLACED, instead of being
>progressive scanned (which would have made it compatible with computer
>video).
>
>Why does America do this over and over and over?

         You'll have to ask the NAB, I would think.

         Any TV folks here who can tell us if
         it was merely six months that left the
         US with an inferior system?




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