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USDTV: It's Panicking Time

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Mark_Ericson

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Okay, it's time to panic.

USDTV has been announced as coming to Hampton Roads.

Who's carrying it? All I've seen is LIN (WAVY-10, WVBT-43), and there's no way there's enough bandwidth for 12 SD feeds (even in MPEG-4) plus the HD and other stuff on the two LIN stations, so who else is carrying it?

Unless maybe all those LP stations LIN owns will be used (excellent idea IMO).

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The guess, for now, is LIN TV's two low-powered digital stations... WKTD-CD/17 and WNLO-CD/45 (and possibly a small chunk of bandwidth from WAVY-DT and WVBT-DT) are being used.

It is very possible for 12 SD channels using MPEG4 or WMV9/10 compression on those two stations. What is USDTV using in their boxes?

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> The guess, for now, is LIN TV's two low-powered digital
> stations... WKTD-CD/17 and WNLO-CD/45 (and possibly a small
> chunk of bandwidth from WAVY-DT and WVBT-DT) are being used.
>
>
> It is very possible for 12 SD channels using MPEG4 or
> WMV9/10 compression on those two stations. What is USDTV
> using in their boxes?

I'm pretty certain it's MPEG-4. I could see if it was maybe one 'in-the-clear' SD station and then 6 MPEG-4 feeds, but not an HD and that many.

- Trip<P ID="signature">______________
Visit my website, www.rabbitears.info! It's eventually going to be your one resource for television info! Digital television, histories, and technical information for the entire USA from one source!</P>
 
> The guess, for now, is LIN TV's two low-powered digital
> stations... WKTD-CD/17 and WNLO-CD/45 (and possibly a small
> chunk of bandwidth from WAVY-DT and WVBT-DT) are being used.

That makes a lot of sense when you look at USDTV's map of the Hampton Roads coverage area, which you've helpfully linked from VARTV.

<a target="_blank" href=http://66.239.34.145/normap.gif>http://66.239.34.145/normap.gif</a>

The map does not even come close to the reach of the market's full-power DTV stations as far as I can tell.

Am I right on this?

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