SEMI OT END OF TELEGRAM AGE STOP

[Jim Leonard]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Experience of digital TV (Satellite or cable) or digital radio in the UK 
> though has been that they compress the data so much in order to provide 
> more channels that the resulting picture/audio is far worse than can be 
> achieved with a good analogue TV/radio with a decent aerial setup.

This depends on the carrier.  Over here it ranges from incredible (HDTV) 
to abysmal (DirectTV (depending on the satellite and market you get)).

> rather than a few analogue ones, the quality of actual content goes 
> through the floor because they can't be bothered to keep standards up. 
> In the cases where there *are* good shows, they end up being repeated 
> endlessly, and it's only when you stop and think that you realise there 
> are only a few hours of really good content per month out of 
> tens/hundreds of channels.

Yes.  That's what DVDs and DVRs are for.  I record 200 hours of 
television a month and only watch about 15, seperating the wheat from 
the chaff.

> </rant> :-)

Understood :-)
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