Home Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

250 channels of lossy 480i video and 20 channels of HD. Sound familiar?

It's like MP3's and SACD. Most people want quantity, not quality. Remember DirecTV is "100% digital quality". It's digital, so it's good! Remember that. :)

The goal for digital media is to cram as much information in as little space as possible and do it so it's cheap. I really don't know the wisdom of taking away analog broadcast signals. Where I live, I can barely get an analog TV signal from SF on my over-the-air antenna. When they switch to digital transmission, an "all or nothing" reception, I will certainly get nothing.

You also notice we don't all have 30ips reel-to-reel decks for our music systems or IMAX film projectors for our home theaters, either. But those systems wouldn't be "digital quality".


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