[Noisebridge-discuss] ATSC background?

[Danny O'Brien]

Oh I forgot to add that if you get this working, we'd still like to
see if anything is obeying the BF. I'd be happy to personally buy a
HDHomeRun for messing around if you don't already have one handy,
actually. I always meant to do so by way of thanks for their help, and
it seems like
a fun device to have around NB.

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Danny O'Brien <danny at spesh.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>> Has anybody looked into constructing ATSC bitstreams and/or modulating
>> the same?  All the commercial equipment is godawful expensive, but it
>> seems like it shouldn't be too hard to solve with current CPUs.
>
> I looked at this a bit at work, when we were trying to work out if
> modern receiver equipment still actually obeys the broadcast flag,
> despite having no mandate to do so. GNURadio has some unloved ATSC
> generating code in the codebase, I believe.
>
> The HDHomeRun folks, who are very cool, helped us create ways to dump
> the bitstream. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/watch-tv -- as
> Jeremy says, their system is basically a dump of what's coming off the
> air onto ethernet, so it would be a good way to test your algorithms
> without all that tedious messing around in RF.
>
> d.
>
>
>
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