c.sam posted:I've noticed that most of the fellas in HO locally have strong anti-MTH feelings and no desire to use DCS. Does DCS have any advantages over DCC?
In HO, DCC is pretty much king. I cannot see any wholesale abandonment of a standard that is not proprietary, is accomodated by all HO vendors, has JMRI, has multiple vendors offering a wide variety of decoders, has many vendors creating/offering add-on electronics, and a a large base of knowledge for a proprietary system run by one company. Even MTH realises this and has DCC in PS3. Granted, there is proprietaryness among the control systems - NCE, Digitrax, Lenz, etc. but I only need one to run any DCC-eqiupped engine\. The options for decoders is unheard of in the MTH/Lionel world.
Brendan
