On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Broadcast DTV is shit. I honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the "DTV will give you more channels at better quality" bullshit. I mean seriously: you get interference on an analog signal and you get a little static overlaid - you get interference on digital signal and you get a dead fucking signal. Basic fucking electronic signaling. I saw through it from the start, but it's not like there was a damn thing I could have done about it - the overwhelming hordes of corporate lobbyists and consumer whores (Just visit "engadget") had spoken.
Actually DTV has error correction capabilities that are simply impossible with analog signal. Clearly at a point you do end up simply losing the carrier (I'm not sure what the noise margins are for digital vs. analog) but clearly an ok-signal DTV broadcast is much better than an ok-signal analog broadcast.
Andrei
