On 01/05/2013 11:54 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 01/05/2013 02:20 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high
resolution TV
has been a bit of a flop.
R. G. Newbury:
HD will come. If you like sports you might hit on your local station to
broadcast Oz footie in HD.
We had a sports-only HD channel, that eventually caved in and stopped
being sports-only. Sports would be a good example for a need for HD,
with all that text on the screen, and a tiny ball in a field of players.
Unfortunately, most large screen TVs are LCD, and they're crap at fast
motion (as a camera pans across the field, the screen is really blurry -
some of that's the MPEG compression, a lot of that is technology of an
LCD screen).
Digital TV has been the decimation of our television stations. It cost
an outrageous fortune to replace the transmitter, and all the production
equipment, and our local stations have become little more than a relay
of Sydney television, just with local adverts and a tabloid excuse for a
news service. Two of them have left their studios to shift to mere
office space. Having to change to HD, just a few years later, is
another expense that the stations don't want. Analogue equipment might
last twenty years, and not need endless fiddling. Digital equipment
needs replacing every few years, and has required daily management by
engineering.
If you want to make a disaster, digitise/computerise it.
I can sympathize with this, I am not one of those people who are
impressed with this generation's sudden desire to go "mobile".
Tablets, and iPhones, along with all these other "smart" devices
appear as toys to me....I prefer laptops and desktops, and wired
connections, because to me they're more reliable than wireless. I
don't know that keeping TV technology in an analog state is better or
worse, since to me TV....is just TV. I can SEE differences when you
compare HD to regular television, but is there REALLY such a thing as
"HD RADIO"?.....as I've heard some stations proclaiming?...I
mean....we....as humans can only hear sounds in a specific
range....nothing above....nor below....so if thats the case...how can
you "improve" my radio experience with "high definition" radio?...I
dunno.....just seems like a lot fo things are more for Show & Tell
than anything else these days....
HD Radio stands for Hybrid Digital, not High Definition. The tuner
simply uses digital signal whenever it can to reproduce audio without
losses in quality. Unlike analog radio, though, when signal is too low,
you don't get anything at all. The best use case is probably in a moving
car -- driving through a dead spot becomes unnoticeable (vs. hissing
noise of analog radio)
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