[opendtv] Re: Another vote against ATSC
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:35:10 -0500
Cliff Benham wrote:
> "I already miss analog. Tonight, I hooked the new POS digital
> box to the old analog set. We now get 6 televangelist stations
> with remarkable clarity. Telemundo is perfect. The shopping
> channel is now 4. But, of the 6 stations of real commercial
> programming, only 3 are somewhat steady. Signal strength claims
> to be high, but there is motion blocking that makes Max Headroom
> look normal. The audio glitches (mutes) every few minutes during
> a critical phrase (never during ad's)."
> "DTV is a conspiracy to drive us to cable subscription."
Heh.
First off, this has nothing to do with ATSC. It is DTV they are bitching
about, in general.
I actually have noticed that when you're close to the edge, a lot of
fast action always kills reception. When the action slows down, the
image recovers.
On the other hand, confound it, if you want to increase headroom, how
about giving DTV power levels that are more sensible, compared with
analog? Also, how about giving real, useful pointers on antenna types
and antenna orientation, to all these folks that were making do with
ugly, ghosty, grainy analog?
I love my DTV. I'd never go back to grainy, ghosty, crappy color analog.
Bert
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