[Gllug] [OT] TFT displays

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sat Sep 24 21:11:29 UTC 2005


On Sat 24 Sep, Tethys wrote:

> 
> I get completely the opposite. I'm also in a poor reception area.
> Analogue signals mostly work OK, and degrade nicely when they don't
> (a bit of snow here and there, slightly fuzzy sound occasionally).
> Digital signals on the other hand are full of glitches, and have
> terrible degredation characteristics. Even just a rain shower is
> enough to completely lose the audio, and cause the image to freeze
> for several seconds, which effectively makes it unwatchable. It'll
> be a sad day when analogue broadcasts are turned off. I understand
> that they've sacrificed some redundancy in the signal in order to
> try and fit more channels into the available bandwidth, but from my
> experience, I'd say they've taken it a bit too far.
> 
> Tet

   I thought that the old analogue channels released when analogue is killed
would be used for more fill-in digital channels, but I have been told that
the government has already sold some for new uses.

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Chris Bell

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