Patent ID: 8736770

Claim:
A method performed by at least one processor, at least one circuit, or any combination thereof integrated within a single digital television (DTV) receiver chip, the method comprising: demodulating a digital in-band signal and a digital out-of-band signal to generate a demodulated in-band signal and a demodulated out-of band signal, wherein said digital in-band signal is received from a first front end, wherein said digital out-of-band signal is received from a second front end, wherein said digital in-band signal comprises at least one of a vestigial side band (VSB) signal, a national television standards committee (NTSC) signal, or a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signal, wherein said demodulating comprises equalizing said digital in-band signal and said digital out-of-band signal; error-correcting said demodulated in-band signal and said demodulated out-of-band signal to generate an error-corrected in-band signal and an error-corrected out-of-band signal; and generating an MPEG transport stream based on at least one of said error-corrected in-band signal or said error-corrected out-of-band signal.