DVB-T Dongle

[Chip Fetrow]

That wasn't THAT early.  The first HDTV camera I saw in the wild (not  
at NAB) was at NBC and it cost a cool $1M on its own.

I got shot by it, and later got to see me walking down the hall.  Nice  
video, odd subject.

--chip

On May 18, 2013, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:50:09 -0400
> From: <wb4jfi at knology.net>
> To: "Rob Seastrom" <rs at seastrom.com>
> Cc: tacos at amrad.org
> Subject: Re: DVB-T Dongle
> [...]
> How much did those router cards cost?  To an early adopter DTV  
> station, just
> the HD encoder cost well over half a million dollars each.  The  
> costs of an
> early adopter DTV station was typically between $3.5 million and  
> over ten
> million, for only the transmission systems, no HD production  
> included.  Much
> of that equipment did not last its capital depreciation cycle.  "Early
> adopter" was an official term from the FCC, BTW.
> Terry, WB4JFI