RE: Bl**dy OnDigital...

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

There is a reason for this AFAIK.

Sony are going nuts on IDTV 'cause they think it's the future, the guy
responsible reckons that terrestrial digital is the future and, after I
stopped laughing I listened to the explanation...

The signal to TDTV is very weak, they can't ramp it up because in many
areas it causes interference with the analogue channels, so there's not
much the broadcasters can do without getting complaints either from
digital viewers or analogue viewers, bummer but that's it for the
moment. Sony Man reckons that TDTV is actually very close to perfect
when the signal is right, we just have to wait until the signal gets
sorted.

Also Sky are rumoured to be very interested in terrestrial DTV as
keeping satellites up in the heavens is not a cheap affair.

K.

-----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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