On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Colby Boyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for response Tom and Ron. > > I'll take a crack at improving the ATSC decoder efficiency first, just > to get my feet wet with GNURadio again. Tom, are there test vectors > available for the ATSC 1.0 decoder? > > Whether or not ATSC 3.0 will ever be a thing... I agree with what Ron > has said, and I don't know if it will ever succeed. But with that > said, ATSC 3.0 has a better chance in existing in NA as opposed to > DVB-T2. > > Colby Colby, It's been a while since I've looked at it, but we keep this file in our set of data: http://gnuradio.org/data/atsc_ref_data_low_snr_6.4Msps.16sc If that doesn't work for you, I can get you a good snapshot that I've used myself just captured locally off air. We don't have a good "pure" test signal lab generated or anything, though. Tom > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Ron Economos <[email protected]> wrote: > > ATSC 3.0 is very much like DVB-T2, so at least for the transmitter, you > can > > use many of the DVB-T2 blocks in gr-dtv as a starting point for your > > development. > > > > I'm definitely in wait and see mode on this standard. This is pure > > speculation, but I have a feeling that ATSC 3.0 may never see the light > of > > day. Some reasons are: > > > > 1) There will be no second channel and no government funded converter box > > program like the analog to digital (ATSC 1.0) transition. Unless the FCC > > mandates that all TV's must have an ATSC 3.0 tuner and until these TV's > > penetrate the market, no station is going to switch over. > > > > 2) If the upcoming 600 MHz incentive auction is successful, then there > may > > be large number of TV stations that will need to change frequency after > the > > repack. There will be some government financial relief, but it's likely > not > > to be nearly enough. After spending large sums of money getting on a new > > channel, TV stations may not be too keen to spend more money on ATSC 3.0 > > equipment. > > > > 3) One of the main features of ATSC 3.0 is mobile TV. But mobile TV has > > failed over and over again. The primary reason is that no cell phone > > provider will put a mobile TV receiver in a handset. Without some "killer > > app", ATSC 3.0 doesn't provide enough incentive to upgrade. > > > > But I could be wrong. :-) > > > > Ron > > > > > > On 12/27/2015 11:26 PM, Colby Boyer wrote: > >> > >> Hi GNURadio folks, > >> > >> Some portions of the candidate standard for ATSC 3.0 have been posted > >> to the ATSC website (http://atsc.org/standards/candidate-standards/), > >> and specifically the PHY/bootstrap sections are now available. > >> > >> As far as I know there is no one working on a GNURadio version, but I > >> thought it would be worth while to check for collaborators before > >> venturing out. > >> > >> Note, this would be a personal project for me not for a dissertation or > >> work. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Colby > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >
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