3 Feb
2006
3 Feb
'06
9:01 a.m.
All,
On 2/3/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Jim Leonard wrote:
Never Twice Same Colour, or is that National Television Standards Committee? :)
[...]
Jules Richardson wrote:
Both.
I can't really comment on what either is like in the US (except to say that
the times when I have been in the States I've been amazed at how bad TV
picture quality is - possibly that's due to being used to better vertical
resolution in Europe). Great, an increase of channels with worse
reception and programming
quality than analogue - all in the name of progress :( Grrr!
TV, or radio? Radio, no idea, but digital TV I welcome with open arms. </rant> :-)
Being in the UK I tend to agree, and after seeing Australian cable
content, it is not much better. I seem to gather that the total TV
quality content is constant, it just gets distributed between a larger
number of channels!
The house in which I rent a room does not have a TV in any of the
communal areas and I don't own a TV. so I can say that I don't have
easy TV access. The only programs I am remotely missing are
Mythbusters and Scrapheap Challenge. Since moving, for the first time
in the last 10 years, I am actually reading more books that I am
buying and starting to work through my todo list!
Simon
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