On 1/31/2011 10:22 AM, Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 23:33 -0500, Charles Craft wrote:
>   =20
>> I get most of my TV programming OTA with an antenna on the roof.
>> Once you get used to a digital signal it's hard to go back.
>> There's a satellite receiver, VCR and outdoor camera mixed in with the
>> antenna signal
>> and shared with all the TV's in the house with a RF remote control.
>>
>> If you can get a tuner like
>> (http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hvr950q.html) for<  $100
>> why can't someone like Ramsey come out with a consumer grade modulator
>> for ATSC.
>>     =20
> Think a second about WHAT that modulator would have to do other then
> just modulate?
>
> An ATSC signal is actually a compressed digital video stream. You'd need
> a piece of hardware that first compresses the video, then modulates and
> then transmits it.
>
> Decoding hardware is relatively cheap because the algorithms are
> designed to make decoding relatively easy compared to the encode.
>
> Give it time though, hardware encoding hardware is getting cheaper and
> cheaper, given how ancient the codec in ATSC is I wouldn't be surprised
> if moxes that did this became affordable in a couple years. Today though
> it's still very pricey.
>
> TTYL
>
>   =20
I had forgotten about this one:
    http://www.zeevee.com/residential

It's QAM and expensive but at least people are thinking about it.

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