[Slight OT] TDPL in Russia

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

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