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> live TV with a much much better image quality and without cable's delay Depends. In our area they have split the digital signal so many times to carve out ad
by legitster 3y ago
> live TV with a much much better image quality and without cable's delay
Depends. In our area they have split the digital signal so many times to carve out additional subchannels (10.1,10.2,10.3, etc) that the effective bitrate is now pretty dang low.
When watching football, the channel may only be delivering 720p, and with tons of compression artifacts to boot.
- dylan604 3y agoWay back in the late 90s, the place I was working had a subscription to a trade rag called TV Broadcasting News (or something like that). I remember reading an article on how Congress was upset at the networks for splitting the bandwidth. But being feckless like Congress is, they did nothing about it and just shrugged their shoulders. Fox was famous for choosing 720p as its broadcast format specifically to get 60fps for its sports programming while the other networks chose 1080i5994.