== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article > On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Broadcast DTV is shit. I > > honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the "DTV > > will give you more channels at better quality" bullshit. I mean seriously: > > you get interference on an analog signal and you get a little static > > overlaid - you get interference on digital signal and you get a dead fucking > > signal. Basic fucking electronic signaling. I saw through it from the start, > > but it's not like there was a damn thing I could have done about it - the > > overwhelming hordes of corporate lobbyists and consumer whores (Just visit > > "engadget") had spoken. > Actually DTV has error correction capabilities that are simply > impossible with analog signal. Clearly at a point you do end up simply > losing the carrier (I'm not sure what the noise margins are for digital > vs. analog) but clearly an ok-signal DTV broadcast is much better than > an ok-signal analog broadcast. > Andrei
Yea, but the problem with ATSC (the American DTV standard) is that it's ridiculously susceptible to multipath distortion. I live about a mile and change from the transmitter and have trouble watching stuff with only an indoor antenna.