Re: France hits a Million OTA receivers

Jeff Rife wrote: 
tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:

keroom wrote:


Gee Bob, how many of those were high definition?


Can you buy non-HD receivers? 


Sure...everywhere but the US, Korea, and Japan.  All other countries either
have no HD or require simulcast of SD and HD on the same digital channel.

Europe has HD via satellite. France will start OTA HD in the next few months. The UK is working on OTA HD.

All of the receivers sold in France or anywhere for that matter that are PC based, PCMCIA, USB and PCI cards are all capable of HD. I don't know what percentage of the STB or integrated receivers being sold in France are capable of HD but it would make sense to include HD capability since it is known that HD will be available soon.

The only country the decided on simulcast of SD/HD was Australia. France has seperate channels. Japan uses 12 of 13 segments for HD and one for a robust cellular mobile offering. I think it would make sense for the US to switch to a COFDM based modulation with MPEG4 and do simulcast of SD and HD. We would then have the ability to actually deliver 1080i instead of the pixelated c**p being delivered now. Especially over the next few years as MPEG4 matures.

The US jumped to soon and got the worst of everything.

Bob Miller
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