Re: How does digital TV broadcast prevent ghosting effects?

In article <fi9rnr$85c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, if you say so.
But I also clearly remember the discussions in the related newsgroups at
that time,
about the decision, and 8VSB versus COFDM, and an attempt by the BROADCASTERS
to force COFDM and reject 8VSB, some had alreay installed the COFDM transmitters

The stuff I remember (vaguely) was greatly refreshed by reading
<http://www.atsc.org/history.html> and the related pages on the
"Grand Alliance" and "FCC adopts...". They started with this
in the late 1980's, came up with several systems around 1991 and
combined the results into the standard by 1995.

They lost (against politics).

I'm pretty sure that nobody had put up anything but a test transmitter
by then. I think some groups thought that they could lobby their way
around it as COFDM got better developed after 1995.

You also have to remember that in the decentralized US broadcast
industry, signal quality is a competitive tool. (Or used to be,
now that most everybody uses cable or satellite).

Mark Zenier mzenier@xxxxxxxxxx
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

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