The US digital TV modulation is the worst in the world. That is why we have little choice as to digital TV receivers of any kind.
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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The US digital TV modulation is the worst in the world. That is why we have little choice as to digital TV receivers of any kind.
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.