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16VSB - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | 16VSB is capable of twice the data capacity of 8VSB; while 8VSB delivers 19.39 Mbit/s (Megabits per second) in a 6-MHz television channel, 16VSB could deliver 38.78 Mbit/s, while making the sacrifice of being more prone to transimission error. |
 | | While 8VSB is the ATSC digital broadcast modulation format (used in the United States and a few other countries), 16VSB was planned for cable distribution. |
 | | 16VSB is about twice as susceptible to noise, therefore less suitable than 8VSB for broadcast, but well suited to the signal-to-noise ratio of hybrid fiber-coax distribution, allowing twice as much programming in a 6-MHz channel. |
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