I've 2 perfectly good analogue TVs which I see no point in ditching in
favour of some digital TV. The impetus for me, to get a free to air digibox,
was a TV channel was going to do a long feature on a recent artist Constable
exhibition. That low power channel , locally, on analogue is just snow with
a hint of colour.
The digitally decoded version of that channel, at first sight, was full
colour and no snow. But viewing closeups of Constable's work in that
programme and of course all the other digital channels the same shortcomings
in the coding/decoding of the video info. In artistic terms I belive its
called "local colour" , in effect, a restricted palette range of colour.
Instead of a myriad of green hues you could expect from the analogue system
there was such limiting of range that it makes watching anything other than
cartoons very noticeably degraded.

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

"N Cook" wrote in message
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I've 2 perfectly good analogue TVs which I see no point in ditching in
favour of some digital TV. The impetus for me, to get a free to air
digibox,
was a TV channel was going to do a long feature on a recent artist
Constable
exhibition. That low power channel , locally, on analogue is just snow
with
a hint of colour.
The digitally decoded version of that channel, at first sight, was full
colour and no snow. But viewing closeups of Constable's work in that
programme and of course all the other digital channels the same
shortcomings
in the coding/decoding of the video info. In artistic terms I belive its
called "local colour" , in effect, a restricted palette range of colour.
Instead of a myriad of green hues you could expect from the analogue
system
there was such limiting of range that it makes watching anything other
than
cartoons very noticeably degraded.

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/



Congratulations ! You've just discovered the great myth of the 'perfect'
digital picture ...

Digital terrestrial TV is NOT about better pictures or more channel choice,
it is primarily about ways to reduce spectrum useage so that this rotten
government have got more to sell off to the mobile phone operators.
Satellite, on the other hand, is a whole different matter. There is plenty
of bandwidth available there, so very high quality transmissions can take
place.

If you want to see REALLY bad digital artifacts, go look at a Freeview box,
connected to a plasma or LCD TV. Digital + digital = ( crap ) x 2 ...

Arfa

In article ,
Arfa Daily wrote:
Digital terrestrial TV is NOT about better pictures or more channel
choice, it is primarily about ways to reduce spectrum useage so that
this rotten government have got more to sell off to the mobile phone
operators.

Just *this* government? IMHO, the rot really set in in UK TV after the
last lot auctioned off the ITV franchises - thus setting the precedent
that revenue raising was more important than the quality of the service.
Just about everything else led on from there.

Satellite, on the other hand, is a whole different matter. There is
plenty of bandwidth available there, so very high quality transmissions
can take place.

'Can' being the operative word. Most of what I've seen is equally as bad.

--
*It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

Dave Plowman London SW
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"N Cook" wrote in message
...
I've 2 perfectly good analogue TVs which I see no point in ditching in
favour of some digital TV. The impetus for me, to get a free to air
digibox,
was a TV channel was going to do a long feature on a recent artist
Constable
exhibition. That low power channel , locally, on analogue is just snow
with
a hint of colour.
The digitally decoded version of that channel, at first sight, was full
colour and no snow. But viewing closeups of Constable's work in that
programme and of course all the other digital channels the same
shortcomings
in the coding/decoding of the video info. In artistic terms I belive its
called "local colour" , in effect, a restricted palette range of colour.
Instead of a myriad of green hues you could expect from the analogue
system
there was such limiting of range that it makes watching anything other
than
cartoons very noticeably degraded.

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

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