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Ready or Not, Analog TV Viewers Lose Their Signal

• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  > Ms. Geha wrote, "Here’s hoping you start enjoying a much richer, sharper view from your TV screen." My experience is that digital television is slower to respond, and the pictures are worse. I've had two sets running side-by-side and the picture is clearly better on the analog, and degrades gracefully. Switching between channels is painfully slow on the digital version - it's extremely frustrating. In the UK the switchover is happening, and there have been a huge number of adverts to try to make people prepare. no doubt there will be the same chaos. I'm wondering whether to bother at all - use it as an excuse to give up television entirely.
  • TrevorJ 17y ago
    That's the snake oil part of it all. As far as I understand it, they aren't regulating how a particular band is being used in the sense that broadcasters can split bands up into multiple streams and just compress the heck out of them. You can have one high-quality movie channel or 8 highly compressed ones lets say. I agree, digital means NOTHING in and of itself in terms of quality.