[opendtv] Re: "we'll forever be stuck with by going ATSC"

  • From: Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:58:46 -0600

Tom Barry wrote:

> 
> But with the actual results I've seen I would much rather they just sent 
> the non-HD shows as a decently high bit rate digital 480i and let me 
> deal with it.  Most of the upconversion efforts are a waste.


It depends on the station. Our local NBC (Sinclair) station's
local news is really excellent, almost as good as Fox's
at-the-network upconverts. They list it on TitanTV as HD,
which it isn't, but it's clearly far better than is possible
with an NTSC intermediate, better than DVD.

Doug McDonald
 
 
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