[BC] Re: Re: Monitoring IBUZ secondaries

[Dennis Cope]

David,

Our local CBS station (WBOC-HD) has FOX on their secondary, works great.
One of their engineers told me the other day they are working a way to get
the secondary to get HD on it.  It appears that have an experimental
Flexi-coder at the station.  The only thing I asked them to do was put grey
panels when they went SD for the local news so by plasma screen would not
burn in.

Dennis
WESR, WCTG, NOAA




The REAL kicker is that our audio-only service (HDRadio) has a
96kbit/ s data stream to work with, while the television counterpart (ATSC
and Digital cable HDTV standards) audio stream is a "measly" 448 kbit/s.

I realize that squeezing even 96kb/s into the FM signal wasn't easy
within the legal/physical constraints, but that's reality, isn't it?

Simply put, as long as the present standards are in force, HDTV will
be capable of MUCH better sound than HDRadio.

Over in Europe, German DTV stations can put digital audio-only
services on any unused portion of their spectrum, a whole new class
of audio service to the consumer. So far, you have to have a DTV
receiver to hear them. Since DAB went over like a lead balloon there,
it'll be interesting to see how this plays out. With at least some US
TV stations putting 'throwaway' programming on their secondary DTV
channels (static pictures or weather radar, etc.), I wonder if
there's any possibility of this happening within the US DTV standard?


Kind Regards,
David