On 9/9/10 12:19 CDT, dsimcha wrote:
== 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.
USA latching onto an inferior TV standard and then fighting tooth and
nail to improve equipment that puts up with it? I cry deja vu :o).
Andrei
