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Sirius Backseat TV... Good stuff!

 

Sirius is coming out with an SC-V1 mobile TV tuner. This will solve the "money waste" issue with buying Pioneer's OTA analog TV tuner (what good is it in 2009?).

 

http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/ces-s ... at-tv.html

 

This will be great for passengers, kids, and when stuck in 2 hours of traffic. I'll be getting one. Anyone else?

 

The best part is that Sirius's sound quality won't drop from the use of video. It uses "Hierarchal Modulation", which doesn't interfere with their current bandwidth.

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The best part is that Sirius's sound quality won't drop from the use of video. It uses "Hierarchal Modulation", which doesn't interfere with their current bandwidth.

The article nowhere mentions HM! With the 3 birds SIRI has in te sky right now, they arent equipped to provide HM. SIRI better get two more birds up there with the proper tech to utilize HM!

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The best part is that Sirius's sound quality won't drop from the use of video. It uses "Hierarchal Modulation", which doesn't interfere with their current bandwidth.

The article nowhere mentions HM! With the 3 birds SIRI has in te sky right now, they arent equipped to provide HM. SIRI better get two more birds up there with the proper tech to utilize HM!

 

Sirius announced their video system would use Hierarchal Modulation long ago. That article is very general.

 

http://technology360.typepad.com/techno ... boost.html

 

http://satelliteradiotechworld.blogspot ... aunch.html

 

The geostationary satellite as well as their present satellites will use an "overlay modulation" technique, which will add an additional 1.35 Mb/s throughput.

 

That's the only way to do it! Do you realize Sirius would sound worse than XM (if that is possible, with XM's recent abuse of dynamic range compression) if they didn't push video over HM. Also, I'm presuming it's already happening through the satellites -- unless that demo was emulated, which I highly doubt.

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