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    Ditching cable TV.

    I ditched cable about 8 years ago when local stations from NYC and Philly started broadcasting in HD. The only thing I still miss sometimes is ESPN & MNF although we still get Giants, Jets, & Eagles when they play Monday night games. All for free off a 50 year old antenna no less. Re. your...
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    FCC: Repurposing of the Television Broadcast Spectrum

    Just to follow up on real bandwidth usage, I monitored bit-rates on a couple of dtv channels yesterday. The NYC CBS-2 O&O station was broadcasting NCAA basketball games with a 1920 x 1080i resolution and no sub-channels. The PQ here (some 45 miles from the ESB transmitter) was superb. The...
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    FCC: Repurposing of the Television Broadcast Spectrum

    Here's a good reference page for the ATSC/8VSB digital TV standard: http://www.hdtvprimer.com/ISSUES/what_is_ATSC.html Generally a 1920 x 1080i full HD transmission (~19.4 Megabits per sec. of a mpeg2 compressed transport stream) requires the full 6 MHz bandwidth, while a typical 1280 x 720p...