[mythtv-users] Satellite Receiver with ATSC (not analog/NTSC) output on Ch 3 or 4?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Aug 13 14:40:33 UTC 2008


Larry on the Dell Laptop wrote:
> Do any of the newer satellite receivers (DishNetwork or DirectTV or ??)  
> have an output on Ch 3 or 4 whose output is in the newer ATSC format?   
> The answer is apparently no from all the sources I've checked so far.    
> Dish technical support was a complete waste of time but Mike from Solid 
> Signal seemed knowledgeable.  He said there is a BlonderTongue Modulator 
> which will take composite video and modulate it on a TV channel as ATSC  
> but the price was approx. $500.
> 
> The reason I ask?  I now have newer TV sets that take ATSC in.   My dish 
> receiver outputs the satellite channel it is tuned to on Ch 3 in so 
> called analog aka NTSC format.  This arrives and is displayed on my 
> newer TV degraded in quality.   Since the sets can receive ATSC, 
> wouldn't it make more sense to have the rear panel output on the 
> satellite receiver output in ATSC SD format so that it arrives crystal 
> clear at my new ATSC captable TV set?   This same Ch 3 or Ch 4 ATSC 
> signal could also be picked up by my growing list of PCs with ATSC tuner 
> cards, again without degradation caused by NTSC / analog transmission.


I don't think so. In order to output as ATSC the sat receiver would have
to re-encode the decoded satellite stream, as the satellite does not use
 ATSC format.

Why not use the baseband output of the receiver?

beww


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