[opendtv] Re: [oldvtrs] So Much for HDTV]
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:14:02 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> Then again, we may be too critical. The AVERAGE CONSUMER probably
> does not care, or even see some of this crap. In the past we lived
> with snow, ghosts (multipath) and interlace artifacts. Now we have
> a new set of issues.
Amen to that.
I have noticed macroblocking in fades, but not much at all in the fast
motion. And this is with the weather channel still being transmitted in
the multiplex. Made me wonder why WRC-DT, and O&O, isn't transmitting
some of tgeir additional Olypmics coverage on that SD subchannel instead
of the weather? If there's so much material, why not show it off?
The HD from NBC is mostly wonderful, IMO. Bright and sharp as a tack, a
real pleasure. And just to show what it was really like in the bad old
days of analog low fidelity TV, they had a clip of Mark Spitz earning
one of his gold medals back in 1972. What a difference. I can't fathom
that anyone really preferred that small, fuzzy, grainy picture.
Not sure what new techniques have to be developed for doing fades
without macroblocking. All I can think of is that the signal has to be
progressively more prefiltered while being faded out.
Bert
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