RE: Bl**dy OnDigital...

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

You're lucky.

I dont have to turn anything ON.

Just the clouds moving in the sky is enough to cause all manner of pops,
bangs and pixellation. Its bad enough at home but you ought to hear the
effect at the Long Bar where the sound is fed through a 2kW sound system!!!
When they get a good downpour they lose it completely. When they used to
have SKY they only ever lost the signal twice, once they lost all
Horizontal
channels because one of the downleads filled with water, and the other time
there were hailstones the size of pingpong balls in the middle of July.

Thankfully I only got OnDigital as a backup to SKY. Having said that I
hardly ever watch OnD because the picture definition is awful compared to
SKY and the channels I mostly watch arent even on there :-((

Keith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 August 2001 22:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Bl**dy OnDigital...
>
>
>
> I love OnDigital...
>
> ...what with its "ghost" images of people left on background
changes in
> Start Trek Next Gen...
>
> ...its picture breakups whenever someone turns a light on in the
> house (and
> yes, I have replaced *ALL* the light switches recently with decent MK
> ones!)...
>
> ...it even does it when the central heating boiler kicks in!
>
> Hell, they can't even tell me when they're going to get round to
> broadcasting ITV on my nearest transmitter!
>
> Tell me ... why does the OD box even have a selection for TV type 4:3
/
> 16:9? Is that the answer in some poll that they were doing because it
sure
> as hell doesn't seem that the box uses that info for anything!
>
> *grin* I look forward to the day when the country has gone properly
and
> completely 16:9 ... of course that'll be the same day that the US gets
a
> fully transparently flexible multi-resolution encoding format which is
> backwardly compatible with they "old" high definition tv
standards.
>
> *grumble*
>
> Phil
>
> (P.S. I censored the subject so no-one got offended...)
>
>
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