Hi,
> Does anyone know if Digital TV will do away with the differences
>between NTSC and PAL?
Absolutely, digital TV is MPEG-2(?) encoded rather than PAL/SECAM/NTSC/D-MAC
etc encoded so it should do away with that particular problem.
Of course, I'll bet there will still be issues regarding frame rates and
numbers of scanlines....
>....Will Digital TV eventually be a "universal standard"?
I sincerely hope NOT!
As I said above, digital TV uses MPEG encoding. This is fine in theory, but
in practice the quality of *ALL* off-air transmissions I've seen to date has
been lousy - way worse than analogue - due to the TV companies involved
using high levels of (lossy) compression in order to squeeze more channels
out of the available bandwidth.
I suspect we're stuck with it though, since the average moron on the street
seems to be quite content to accept such a major step backwards in picture
quality....and pay through the nose for the privilege. :-(
TTFN - Pete.
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