George Brown has his day. Again. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [oldvtrs] So Much for HDTV Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:19:35 -0700 (PDT) From: David Breneman <david_breneman@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: oldvtrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: oldvtrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- On Mon, 8/18/08, Cliff Benham <flyback1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is just as you say. It's happeniing everywhere onDirecTV, Dish, all the digital channels on cable systems and fiber systems as well. Not only the HD programs but SD as well, and it looks worsethere.
And it's not just in the US. I was in Germany this spring and saw a Dish-like provider's signal on what I assume was a 720p set at my German "parent's" (the family I stayed with as a high school exchange student) house. On newscasts, the anchors' hair looked painted on. Any movement showed lots of mpeg artifacts. At my German "sister's" house, they still have PAL and the picture looked a lot better. I see the same stuff on my "home TV" which is actually a Sony PVM-1910 hooked into a digital Comcast box, but on an HD set the compression artifacts are all the more pronounced. I guess the only option is to use George Brown's method for increasing percieved resolution during the NTSC field trials -- move the chairs farther back from the screen. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oldvtrs/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oldvtrs/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:oldvtrs-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:oldvtrs-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: oldvtrs-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org
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