3 Feb
2006
3 Feb
'06
9:12 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Experience of digital TV (Satellite or cable) or
digital radio in the UK
though has been that they compress the data so much in order to provide
more channels that the resulting picture/audio is far worse than can be
achieved with a good analogue TV/radio with a decent aerial setup.
This depends on the carrier. Over here it ranges from incredible (HDTV)
to abysmal (DirectTV (depending on the satellite and market you get)).
rather than a few analogue ones, the quality of actual
content goes
through the floor because they can't be bothered to keep standards up.
In the cases where there *are* good shows, they end up being repeated
endlessly, and it's only when you stop and think that you realise there
are only a few hours of really good content per month out of
tens/hundreds of channels.
Yes. That's what DVDs and DVRs are for. I record 200 hours of
television a month and only watch about 15, seperating the wheat from
the chaff.
</rant> :-)
Understood :-)
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