[BC] TV Standards

[Robert Meuser]

The 5th generation chip makes a massive difference. I don't know if it would 
solve your problem, put I get pretty bad UHF reception on my indoor antenna but 
the DTV is perfect.

R

Robert Orban wrote:
> At 05:49 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> From: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
>> Subject: Re: ReRe: [BC] TV Standards
>> To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>> Is this a pure RF blockage problem (no analog UHF reception either) or 
>> is it
>> that you have an old DTV tuner?
>>
>> R
>>
>> Robert Orban wrote:
>>
>> > Since I am on the wrong side of a hill and cannot receive a single one
>> > of the San Francisco UHF DTV stations with a large, amplified outdoor
>> > antenna (even though the Sutro TX site is only about 25 miles from my
>> > house),
> 
> 
> I have an HDTiVo, which doesn't use 5th-generation tuner chips, but is 
> not the oldest design in the world either. I can get recognizable analog 
> UHF from Sutro, but the picture is VERY snowy, to the point where it is 
> really impossible to enjoy watching. So I'm guessing that this is an RF 
> signal strength problem. I don't have an RF spectrum analyzer readily 
> available; this is really the only way I could say for sure.
> 
> I _can_ get KNTV's DT signal, but that TX is on Mt. San Bruno (a bit 
> closer to me than Sutro), and, most importantly, it's on channel 12.
> 
> My antenna is a "deep fringe" VHF/UHF combo antenna (a Channel Master, I 
> believe) on a rotator with an amplifier mounted on the mast immediately 
> below the antenna.
> 
> There are a lot of east/west-going canyons on the SF peninsula, and 
> people in the valleys get major shadowing of the SF TX sites. Cable is a 
> must in those locations. Comcast in my area has an HD tier but doesn't 
> carry UPN or The WB, just ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox. So, at the moment, I 
> am waiting for DirecTV to finally get its act together with HD locals, 
> and hope that they carry all of the networks, and also that their MPEG4 
> re-encoding doesn't compromise picture quality too much. (No one at 
> DirecTV seems to be willing to talk about which flavor of MPEG4 they 
> will be using; hopefully it will be AVC.)
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Orban
> 
> 
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