Re: Ofcom and the Giant Digital Dividend

DAB is the Betamax of digital radio wrote:
Dave Farrance wrote:
tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

...
Ofcom quote results of market research, saying that HDTV is a
marginal interest compared with more elaborate mobile services. ...

It seems to me that many of the UHF preamps and DVB receivers
currently on the market are not too clever at handling strong signals
on adjacent channels. So what's going to happen when a UHF mobile
broadcasts in the same room as a DVB receiver?


The Digital Dividend spectrum is in two blocks:

Channels 31 - 40 (excl. 36 and 38)
Channels 63 - 68

so there's actually only 3 channels that could possibly be adjacent to
channels used for mobile TV, and these channels at the edge of the
*continguous* blocks might not be used for mobile TV, because they
could be used for, say, WiMAX.


contiguous


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