Re: OT: TV converter boxes

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:05:53 -0700) it happened Joerg
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So how is your reception now Joerg?
I am curious as to multi path problems.

Some days it's really bad. When heavy multi-path sets in or a freighter plane come in low and slow we sometimes lose almost all digital channels. Then we switch back to the analog ones. With most converters that requires throwing an external antenna switch to bypass the box. On Feb-19, 2009 that will be over. Meaning we'll have to crack out the card game or do something else.


Last night I was thinking more and more that 8VSB is what SECAM was in Europe,
a political decision to protect US industry...... from European made products....
(And perhaps both made in China he he :-) .
We have QAM 64 on DVB-T.

Sure, yours is more robust but AFAIK you do not have the really good HDTV stuff such as 1080 lines.


There is a recommendation from EBU (European Broadcasting Union) against interlacing:
http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_301-editorial.html
So when you say 1050, 1050 @60 fps non interlaced I hope ;-)
Anything displayed on a non-CRT, such as an LCD, will lose a lot of definition
if the source was interlaced.


It was 1080 interlaced and the picture quality was absolutely stunning. So yeah, those commissions can talk all day long. We've already got 1080 lines on terrestrial TV. Do you?



Nature or animal documentaries in 1080 HDTV are absolutely stunning.

Well, I have HD on sat, ad 'flipper' in 1920x1080 was still watery ;-)


We watched a ballroom dance competition and it was almost as if you were there.

Yes, it can be beautiful.


Nobody has multi path problems here its seems, not even me, and I tried
cross-country, where the analog signal was extremely noisy in the past,
yet I recorded Harry Potter no problem in digital...

No Harry Potter in this house, absolutamente not.

Well, I wanted to see it (timeshift) so recorded it, if somebody asks my
opinion at least I have seen it.

I have not read the book.

I did read Lord of the Rings, and in my view the book is better then the
movies made from it.


Well, ok, I just don't like this kind of stuff.

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Regards, Joerg

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