Hey:
Perhaps the original author was talking about digital cable, which I understand
has this problem.
gene
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> Behalf Of Paul Hart
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stella] PAL television color
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> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Peter Pachla wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Huh? Are we all talking about the same thing? By "digital television"
> are we talking about HDTV signals? HDTV television sets are still quite
> expensive in the United States (compared to analog ones), but I'd have to
> say that the HDTV broadcasts that I've viewed on floor models at the
> electronics stores had EXQUISITE picture quality. Maybe I'm missing
> something here.
>
> Paul Hart
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