gtr73 Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Slightly old news now, but I see the Americans have set a date for digital TV changerover (2009), and the Govt is even gonna hand out two $40 vouchers to any household that relies soley on FTA! USA - free STB's for all! USA DTV changeover Imagine Johnny Howard handing out $$$ for a set top box here? Yeah right!! But I can hear the Yanks now . . . "Ya goddam right the Govt should pay for my digital TV, it's our God given right as freedom lovin' Americans!" Here it's more like . . . "Oh well, better get a digital box for the telly. Bugger that, we're gettin' broadband and internet TV instead!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austen Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 ...the Americans ......and the Govt is even gonna hand out two $40 vouchers to any household that relies soley on FTA!: Imagine Johnny Howard handing out $$$ for a set top box here? Yeah right!! ............ If I ruled the world, I'd be sending every house in Australia their $40 vouchers over this weekend, and telling all the media operators analogue finishes in six months time, no negotiations and take no prisioners. Austen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mining Man Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 Hell yeah!! Vote 1 Austen!!! Where's the booth? (sure you don't want to make it 3 months? ) (Save Winky!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewW Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 reported Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanh Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Tuesday 17th February 2009 is the close down date in the USA for all main station analog TV. Federal Communications Commission DTV website Then we will be able to forget National Television Systems Committee = Never Twice the Same Colour or NTSC, 3.579545 MHz colour subcarrier, 15734.26 line/s, 59.94005233 field/s, 29.97 frame/s and 23.97602093 frame/s. All we will have left is Advanced Television Systems Committee ASTC for transmission of American TV signals vs Digiital Video Broadcasting (DVB) used in the rest of the world frame rates of 24, 25 and 30 frame/s AlanH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skid_MacMarx Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Will the Americans have the same technology as Australia (DVB-T Mpeg2) or will they be using Mpeg4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 MPEG2 for the the foreseeable future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanh Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 All, MPEG2 and MPEG4 are compatible with each other so you could have both coexisting in one TV signal. However the US system is averse to increasing competition which was shown when AM radio worldwide changed from 10 kHz spacing to 9 kHz spacing. The Americans did not change. It would have meant 8 more AM channels So much for international standardisation. AlanH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalj Posted October 29, 2007 Share Posted October 29, 2007 All,MPEG2 and MPEG4 are compatible with each other so you could have both coexisting in one TV signal. However the US system is averse to increasing competition which was shown when AM radio worldwide changed from 10 kHz spacing to 9 kHz spacing. The Americans did not change. It would have meant 8 more AM channels So much for international standardisation. AlanH The Americans always have to be different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt R Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 The Americans always have to be different don't tell me about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyril Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 Will the Americans have the same technology as Australia (DVB-T Mpeg2) or will they be using Mpeg4? Note that the US not only will continue to use mpeg2 but they use thier rather unique (but not very clever) 8VSB modulation system. This system struggles with ghosts (reflections), cannot support SFN but is not as suscpetible to impulse noise as DVB-T's COFDM. Cyril Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimellis Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 LOL - so do the Australians, stubbon to the core. Ha ha ha ;o) -------- don't tell me about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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