Dan, et al,
Curious if these hardware specs for the DVB system are documented
anywhere? It seems like some enterprising individual could take this and,
if the cheaper hardware does work, create a system on their own. Not
being too familiar with such things, would it be that difficult? It
seems, though, that if this was possible, a system that could be closely
integrated with the LDM would be beneficial, both from a system
configuration and a system resource standpoint. That being said, where
could one start reading up on such things just to learn the basics?
Bryan
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dan Vietor wrote:
->On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:02, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
->> Yes, this may be redundant for many...but look out! 11 months from today,
->> NOAAport as we know it will cease to exist. They pushed the schedule ahead
->> by 3 months, at least...and starting September 3 of this year, the new
->> NOAAPort comes online in test mode!
->
->Wowa.. not so fast. The existing NOAAPORT configuration, minus GOES
->West will still be available through early 2006. So don't throw away
->your NOAAPORT systems too fast.
->
->The BIG question is who in the commercial sector is going to build the
->new systems. I suspect many will decide not to offer DVB systems. This
->might be because off-the-shelf DVB systems already offer file and data
->management back-ends. I'm not sure which direction NWS is going but if
->they go this route, then for the cost of a $150 WinTV card, a user could
->get NOAAPORT data.
->
->My questions right now are whether an off-the-shelf WinTV card can
->handle the new bandwidth of NOAAPORT-DVB. I'm curious to see what
->direction this goes. We'll know more when NWS starts dumping DVB data
->out on GOES West later this year.
->
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->Dan Vietor <devo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
->Unisys
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