Re: Bit off topic ...


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Sorry if I stuff up the posting, I am still new to this.
Something that has been left out of this digital transmission is the
problems that occur in aus (I am not sure if it happens over there
or not) is that we get problems of dropouts, freezing, slicing of
the pic and the ocasional crashing of the stb which needs the full
reset job. The pic is always good, that is when you get a pic unlike
the old analogue which you would still get even tho it was rather
snowy but still a pic. The question really is who is benefitting out
of this and why we need to take a step back in technology.
Please let me know if I am incorrect in any of this in your country.
Ken.
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I much preferred the poor analogue signal problems.
First the colour goes then snowy pic getting worse and worse along with
the
sound and then lastly the sound disappears.
In my opinion the encoding/decoding for Freeview (UK) type digital
processing is the reverse of this. The sound is about the first thing to
disappear and of course it is total loss not distorted. I can follow a
film
without a picture but not without sound, not being a viewer of "action "
films

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My main issue with analog is not snow or signal strength, rather
multipath. Careful adjustment of the antenna (rabbit ears at the moment)
minimizes but does not eliminate that. Apparently that will go away with
digital?

jak


Don't believe that for one minute ! This was one of the trumpeted
'advantages' of the 'super robust' digital signal. Ha! I say. The signal is
nothing like as robust as they would have you believe, and multipath is just
as big a problem for it, as it is for analogue, except that when you get it
on analogue, you can at least keep watching. If multipath screws up a
digital signal, you're into freeze territory again. Many of the so called
'digital' aerials that you see here now are of the old JayBeam X-element
anti-ghost design. If you struggle with analogue now, I think that it's
unlikely that you will receive digital transmissions reliably.

Arfa


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