Talk:Digital Command Control

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Open standard

Is Digital Command Control really an open standard as claimed on Trainmaster Command Control and Hornby Railways? Quoting MTH Electric Trains:

MTH has also traded lawsuits with Quantum Sound Industries, whose technology is used to add electronic sound to model locomotives from various manufacturers. MTH's critics also say the company patented some elements of DCC, which was supposed to be an unencumbered open standard.

— Tobias Bergemann 06:48, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, unless MTH starts demanding license fees from other DCC manufacturers, I'd say it's pretty free. --Agamemnon2 13:40, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does anybody know when DCC was invented? --Pauldude90 08:08, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

> DCC was invented by Hornby, who piloted their Zero-1 system during the 50's. However, it didn't sell well, but had a wide range; this primarily consisted of lococ modules (today's equivelent of a chip), the base unit (to control up to 16 loco's, the main controller) and hand-held controllers (to give wider controllability and more operating opertunities). However, due to the prematurity of the system, several faults were foiund. Primarily, this was the track not being cleaned to a high standard. Other problems included power failiure (not enough power to the track or drop due to distance from track input) and mis-interpretation of signals (i.e. input to one loco and another moves also under the same control even when seperatly programmed). Hope this helps. MGD11 —Preceding unsigned comment added by MGD11 (talk • contribs) 10:04, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Article rename

I wonder if this article should be renamed to NMRA DCC? Digital command control is basically a generic term which happens to be part of the name of NMRA DCC system as well. Currently the article discusses NMRA DCC, not dcc systems in general. I think it would be justified to create a new system neutral article about digital command control technology with references to real world dcc applications such as NMRA-DCC, Selectrix, Märklin-Motorola, Fleischmann FMZ etc.
—Z220info (talk) 07:10, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do the other makers refer to their systems as a "DCC"? It's my impression that DCC implies the NMRA standard digital controllers. Who first used the name DCC? Sorry, I don't know the answers to these questions. KarlWK (talk) 19:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]