[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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