[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 9 10:19:51 PDT 2010


== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
> On 09/09/2010 03:40 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Broadcast DTV is shit. I
> > honestly can't believe anyone was ever stupid enough to buy into the "DTV
> > will give you more channels at better quality" bullshit. I mean seriously:
> > you get interference on an analog signal and you get a little static
> > overlaid - you get interference on digital signal and you get a dead fucking
> > signal. Basic fucking electronic signaling. I saw through it from the start,
> > but it's not like there was a damn thing I could have done about it - the
> > overwhelming hordes of corporate lobbyists and consumer whores (Just visit
> > "engadget") had spoken.
> Actually DTV has error correction capabilities that are simply
> impossible with analog signal. Clearly at a point you do end up simply
> losing the carrier (I'm not sure what the noise margins are for digital
> vs. analog) but clearly an ok-signal DTV broadcast is much better than
> an ok-signal analog broadcast.
> Andrei

Yea, but the problem with ATSC (the American DTV standard) is that it's
ridiculously susceptible to multipath distortion.  I live about a mile and change
from the transmitter and have trouble watching stuff with only an indoor antenna.


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