It's funny for them to go to all this trouble to switch to digital when
broadcast and cable TV have been outdated by compressed video via the
internet for ~5 years. I still like broadcast radio for it's retrogrouch
appeal, but digital broadcasts lack that entirely. I suppose broadcast
is still free, while the internet often costs money.
Tyler
ernest breakfield wrote:
short story; digital broadcasting allows more broadcasts in the same
range of spectrum.
who benefits? the broadcasters (who have more space to broadcast
and therefor more opportunities to sell commercial time) and the FCC
(by having the opportunity to take in more in licensing fees from the
additional broadcasts).
is the result to the consumer better? as with almost all things,
yes and no.
as noted, if you're in a marginal/fringe coverage area, since
digital reception is almost exclusively all-or-nothing, you may no
longer have coverage at all. however, many folks in high-coverage
areas (which accounts for most of the population) actually gained
channels and service, and in many cases the picture is clearer even
using the conversion box.
one of my pet peeve downsides relates to the nature of digital
coverage; if a signal isn't near-perfect, the dropout causes bits of
picture and audio to simply be skipped. this can be really annoying if
you're trying to follow something, and the only way we've found to be
able to keep up on the detail in these cases is to have the Captioning
on so we can quickly read what we didn't hear. (this seems to happen
often on only one channel in my area, however it naturally happens to
be the channel that carries one of the Wifelets fav shows...)
one thing the conversion has done for me is give me more channels
with which to prove my hypothesis that there isn't much on TV worth
watching anyway, and it's certainly still not worth paying for! ;-)
cheers!
e
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