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Most of the receivers available today exist only because the FCC has mandated them. Even the company that owns the Royalty rights to 8-VSB, LG Industries of S. Korea, does not see fit to make an STB receiver for the retail US market.

LG does see fit to make a COFDM based receiver for Australia, a market of only 19 million people. 150 other firms do also. Funny since LG has no advantage in Australia because they have to pay royalties for DVB-T COFDM modulation there.

You should ask LG why the US is such a disaster mode with our over the air digital TV transition. They must have at least a clue.

The best modulation in the world on the other hand is DMB-TH whose royalty rights are owned by an American company, Legend Silicon. At least 150 companies are already making prototypes for the Chinese market where DMB-TH has been adopted. Expect to see and hear a lot about it in 2008 around the Olympics being held in China.

So why is it that a country like Australia has the choice of 180 different over the air digital receivers? Why does China have the best modulation by far?

Because the US has a corrupt political process that allowed firms to influence our choice of digital TV modulation.

We have the worst digital TV modulation in the world by a wide wide margin.

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