Hi Dan-- Your knowledge is incomplete. ;-) A lot of areas get the full 19 Mbps ATSC stream on cable via either 8VSB or QAM64/256 by a variety of companies in both the US and Canada. Even AT&T/TCI puts out a channel of ATSC over 8VSB in parts of Chicago.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=99538 And ATSC isn't confined to HDTV with DD5.1, although that's where it's best used. Regards-- Dan >From: Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Daniel Schmelzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: ATSC >Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:52:54 -0800 (PST) > >On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Daniel Schmelzer wrote: > > Apparently, TWC encrypts their QAM256 signal, but in some markets sends >out > > 8VSB. Other companies may send the signal in the clear. > >I don't know anyone doing 8VSB over north american cable system yet, it >appears to be reserved for HDTV. TCI certainly is not doing 8VSB. > >http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=MPG.14e1f81875ce546b9896cc%40news.direct.ca&output=gplain > >FWIW the cable operators compress the holy living shit out of their >channels so what the customer ends up receiving looks something like >realvideo over a 56k dialup connection. > >I gave up on TCI digital cable because the quality was so horrible, and >went back to analogue. There is more chroma noise but the terrible >compression artifacts are gone. > >-Dan >-- >[-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] > _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
