Nah, here in the US we are far too arrogant to adopt other countries standards :)
I thought that QAM was only good over cable. I didn't know it could work OTA as well. -Nate On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:08:58 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:54:42PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > > ATSC is in fact the only reason people are putting up new antennas. If > > you get satellite, you must use an antenna to get your local stations. > > The satellite companies don't have the bandwidth to feed all the locals > > in HD, not yet. For your HD-cable, you can get it without an antenna. > > > > The protocol for that is called QAM, it is different from ATSC and DVB. > > Whether they would let you put a cablecard into a PC and an open > > source PVR is an interesting question. > > FWIW, DVB-T uses QAM (16, 32, 64, 128). > > > Anyway, the pcHDTV card we are all talking about is rumoured to have > > QAM support in development, so it could tune your cable and you > > would not need an antenna. As to when, who knows? > > > > The QAM signal for your local stations should be unencrypted. The > > This is a bit confusing; the encryption would be at the MPEG level, > with QAM just being the analog modulation used to carry the MPEG > data stream. > > Any chance the USA would like to adopt DVB-T? :-) > I hear that QAM is better than 8VSB also (your OTA modulation). > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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