FWIW, I think not everyone is the same in this regard. Personally, I also prefer to watch a clear picture with picture & sound breaking up occasionally than every programme behind a snow scene, no matter how "perfect" the audio might be. I'd rather just listen to the radio if the latter was the case!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 20 May 2008 02:20 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels > You'd think... But then my first flat in London barely > managed to get analogue... I actually got a digital box in > the first place because it offered a better picture! A clear > picture that broke up once every 90 seconds was preferable to > watching fuzz and snow. Interesting you should say that, I was thinking about this whilst watching the footie on the TV the other day - our analogue reception is awful (and we don't have a roof aerial where we are at the moment, so it's bunny ears all round) and whilst the picture is awful, bar a few moments of static the audio is quite fine. The contiguousness of the audio also helps with tolerance - I can quite happily tolerate a poor quality video feed if the audio's fine. Same goes for cinema - people seem to put up with awful quality video so long as the sound's good (odd really, a strange psychological thing which must have some link with the way our brains interpret natural sound, and the way it introduces its aural coping mechanisms when our eyes are starved of sufficient input). Personally I'd rather have naff analogue with continuous audio where I can gist the few words I miss, rather than have a lossy (moreso than analogue, arguably) digital signal with squelchy audio and dropouts every so often. I put up with it on my PC's freeview receiver, but I still find myself wandering into the kitchen to tune in on the analogue set. I think I'm a bit strange. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
