Posted by J. Clarke on 01/01/06 23:46

Roy L. Fuchs wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:59:34 GMT, John in Detroit <blanked@blank.net>
> Gave us:
>
>>
>>The only difference is the signal levels and noise levels which are
>>acceptable.
>
> No shit!
>
> Why do you think that we now use an 18" dish for satellite reception
> when, ON THE SAME BIRD, with analog it required an 8 foot dish?
>
> Why can we pipe over 500 channels of programming through THE SAME
> BIRD, when we used to only get two per transponder, for a total of 48
> channels maximum?
>
> Same bird, same power output, different signal content. Twelve
> channels PER CARRIER instead of two. How did we accomplish this feat?
> It certainly wasn't with defeatist attitudes like yours in the heads
> of the best engineers in the country. Pretty simple shit. Digital
> Transport Streams and FEC are the answer.
>
> Case closed.

I find it interesting that you are yammering about satellite when the
discussion is of HD broadcast. I guess if all you've got is a nail . . .

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