Re: OT? : Netherlands to switch 100% to VOIP before 2010


"Nico Coesel" <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


Shortly in the UK we'll also be losing the analogue TV and me as a
viewer. I currently see the supplied digital channels using a digital
decoder box. Picture quality is noticeably poorer than the analogue
stuff, particularly on skin tones flat colour surfaces and American
imports. Sort of paint it by numbers.

Can't agree. The image from the digital decoders we have (DVB Samsung)
is much better than analog especially with multiple TVs connected in
parallel. But you really should use a scart cable, not composite
video.

I recently got my wife a LCD HD-ready TV. Picture quality using a
Freeview STB was poor, clearly worse than her old CRT TV.
Signal strength was fine (I took a spectrum analyser home
to check the signals out).

I then got her a PVR which has the capability of interpolating the
SD signals to HD. The displayed picture quality improved very
significantly.

I assume this may well be related to driving the LCD at its "native"
resolution, as we do with computer display LCD's.

Regards
Ian


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