RE: I've always wondered

[Garrett Wollman <wollman>]

<<On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:41:15 -0400, "Michael P Fitzpatrick Jr." <fitzradio@the-spa.com> said:

> Is there a database somewhere of Foreign Channels, like there is for
> domestic ones?

The World Radio TV Handbook used to be fairly good with details like
this, and probably still accurately reflects what is on the air in
Denmark.

> Also what is being done in other countries regarding DTV? Are they going
> through what we are here?

Most PAL-speaking countries have adopted the DVB-T system, with COFDM
(coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) modulation for OTA
broadcasting (as opposed to the 8VSB and 16VSB encodings defined for
the US-standard ATSC system).  The Eureka-147 DAB systems also uses
COFDM, which was chosen for its resistance to multipath.  Both DVB-T
and ATSC are based on the MPEG-2 standard.

The EchoStar (``DISH Network'') satellite service uses DVB-T encoding.

-GAWollman