which format digital in USA?

ref:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/8096438.stm

So what's the new "free to air" format they're using - is it
the same as FreeView?

BugBear

bugbear wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/8096438.stm

So what's the new "free to air" format they're using - is it
the same as FreeView?

Similar idea, but they use ATSC instead of DVB-T that Freeview does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_Standards

bugbear wrote:

" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/8096438.stm "


Ugh, low resource webpage. We don't watch the internet in black & white
any more since we advanced from the 14.4 kbit/s modem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8096438.stm

Cuzman wrote:

" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8096438.stm "


Two minutes on Wiki and here's just about all you need to know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Televis..._United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...tes_and_Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital..._United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTV_tra..._United_States

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:03:41 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

Similar idea, but they use ATSC instead of DVB-T that Freeview does.

But, perhaps suprisingly, for satellite direct to home, they use DVB-s.

USA Today has a photograph of a man installing a "high-definition antenna".

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-06-11-analog-digital-tv_N.htm

bugbear wrote:
So what's the new "free to air" format they're using - is it the
same as FreeView?

It's not new; the "digital switchover" for the 10% of Americans who
don't have cable or satellite TV should more accurately be called
"analog turning-off and accompanying digital reshuffling."

Over-the-air digital television have been available since the late
1990s. The ATSC standard mentioned elsewhere in this thread has
supported high definition from the start; as a result not nearly as
many standard-definition channels are available as Freeview has. The
six US nationwide commercial television networks (NBC, CBS, etc.) have
broadcast their prime-time programming in high definition for the bulk
of the decade (since 1999 for _The Tonight Show with Jay Leno_);
reality, talk, news, and non prime-time shows, and the nationwide
government-supported network (PBS), have taken longer but the majority
are now in high definition.

I count at
URL:https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Freeview_(UK)
about 50 Freeview non-radio, non-text channels, all in standard
definition. Here in the San Francisco Bay area I receive 10
over-the-air high-definition channels. There are also about 15-20
standard-definition digital channels (each equivalent to a Freeview
channel), but I never bother with them.

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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:33:10 +0000, Yeechang Lee wrote:

I count at
URL:https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Freeview_(UK)
about 50 Freeview non-radio, non-text channels, all in standard
definition.

You are being rather generous in describing them as "all in standard
definition".

Quite a number of them are in sub standard, poor bitrate sub-standard defintion.

The policy of terrestrial digital TV in the UKofGB&NI has been one of letting
the market deccide, and that has meant that the commercial multiplex operators
cram in as many stations as they can broadcast in order to maximize profits.

Whereas in the North America, each TV station is awarded its own 6 MHz channel
for broadcasting, in the UKofGB&NI, 6 national multiplexes have been created.

In the post analog switchoff configuration, the first is allocated to the BBC,
the second is split between three commercial PSB broadcasters of which one is
state owned, the third is for the HD services of the PSB broadcasters.

The three remaining multiplexes are operated for commercial gain with space
sold to the highest bidder, but heavily dominated by the additional digital
stations (eg +1 versions) of the three commercial PSB broadcasters plus the
much loved shopping stations and dating channels.

Maybe I'm a worry wart but shouldn't he get a bigger step ladder?

Paul DS.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
news
USA Today has a photograph of a man installing a "high-definition
antenna".

http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2009-06-11-analog-digital-tv_N.htm