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Justdays after the FCC dismissed Sinclair Broadcasting Group ‘s petition to allowbroadcasters to use COFDM modulation instead of the ATSC’s 8-VSB system, NBC’sVP technical planning and engineering, Peter Smith, raised “extremeconcerns” about the performance of 8-VSB. NBC has quietly conducted testswith DVB-T equipment from Nokia in Philadelphia, Washington, Los Angeles andDallas and invited members of…

The Paper’s aim is to set the context for convergence, mapping out the scope of the Review and identifying the principal areas where convergence raises policy and legislative issues. Comments and submissions Comments and submissions were sought on the issues raised in this Paper, or on any other issues related to convergence. The Issues Paper…

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DTG Member Adherent is to launch an interesting portable MPEG test unit at NAB 2000, Las Vegas. The AD954 portable Stream Grabber is for field engineers working on compression equipment installation and service, making MPEG-2 DVB or ATSC testing and debugging simpler. The unit has a simple-to-use interface giving lap top control, and clear graphical…

Video Division board unanimously agrees to guidelinesfor defining digital video and audio products Arlington, VA, Dec, 23 1999 — The Consumer Electronics Association(CEA) today outlined steps being taken by its Video Division Board to expandexisting voluntary industry definitions for digital television. “Now that DTV is a market reality and consumers have access to a broadarray…

Telewestdigital Cable deploys Two Way TV (Courtesy of DTG of UK) Two Way TV, leaders inlive interactive TV entertainment, and Telewest Communications, the UK’s secondlargest cable operator, have reached agreement to deploy Two Way TV’sinteractive entertainment service on the Telewest digital cable network.Telewest will roll out Two Way TV’s interactive games and sports applications ontheir…