Comments on: digital television’s dirty little secret http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/ and he left something for you to read Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: EDWARD LAUGHLAN http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-70449 EDWARD LAUGHLAN Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:58:18 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-70449 Sorry, the above link on my comment does not work - this one will! Sorry, the above link on my comment does not work – this one will!

]]> By: EDWARD LAUGHLAN http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-69079 EDWARD LAUGHLAN Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:42:20 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-69079 Digital TV is linked to microwave towers and the HAARP technology. Very very dangerous! You should read the book HAARP: Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by Jerry E. Smith. Digital TV will never enter my home! Digital TV is linked to microwave towers and the HAARP technology. Very very dangerous! You should read the book HAARP: Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy by Jerry E. Smith. Digital TV will never enter my home!

]]> By: KA1OS http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-67086 KA1OS Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:02:09 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-67086 You may find that the on-air, digital TV pictures for stations you can receive are better than the ones you get from your cable provider's HD signal. Cable companies often compress the video even further to reduce bandwidth. These cause artifacts like 'boxing', where one part of the scene is rendered at lower resolution, and pixelation, especially during fast action scenes. In any case, those Sony Watchman TVs will soon be pretty worthless for receiving broadcasts while out in the field. You may find that the on-air, digital TV pictures for stations you can receive are better than the ones you get from your cable provider’s HD signal. Cable companies often compress the video even further to reduce bandwidth. These cause artifacts like ‘boxing’, where one part of the scene is rendered at lower resolution, and pixelation, especially during fast action scenes.

In any case, those Sony Watchman TVs will soon be pretty worthless for receiving broadcasts while out in the field.

]]> By: Mike http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-66802 Mike Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:06 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-66802 Don't give up too quickly. I live 60 miles SW of Minneapolis in a valley. Reception from the top of my 45 foot tower with analog has been ok to marginal both on UHF and VHF. I optimized my antenna to perform best on UHF since that is where the new digital allocations will be in the metro. The results have been fabulous. Where now I can receive analog with light snow the digital signals are beautiful with only occasional short fades. The signal levels will only improve when the conversion is complete and everything is full power. I am impressed with digital. Don’t give up too quickly.
I live 60 miles SW of Minneapolis in a valley. Reception from the top of my 45 foot tower with analog has been ok to marginal both on UHF and VHF. I optimized my antenna to perform best on UHF since that is where the new digital allocations will be in the metro. The results have been fabulous.
Where now I can receive analog with light snow the digital signals are beautiful with only occasional short fades. The signal levels will only improve when the conversion is complete and everything is full power.
I am impressed with digital.

]]> By: K7AGE http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-66783 K7AGE Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:34:07 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-66783 When the analog transmitters shut down, many of the digital transmitters may change frequency. Dig through this web site http://tvfool.com/ Randy When the analog transmitters shut down, many of the digital transmitters may change frequency.

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]]> By: Darrell http://horzepa.com/blog/2009/02/09/digital-televisions-dirty-little-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-66772 Darrell Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:32:18 +0000 http://horzepa.com/blog/?p=520#comment-66772 Seems that Digital TV has several little secrets! Like “rain fade without rain, the frozen pixels and of course dropped sound”. Try watching a newscast with several words or sentences dropped, or a movie with the same affect. They just seem to Forget to mention these types of things. Digital is great in the way that Hams use it, confirming received and error checking. I just wonder how emergency broadcasts will do over digital TV, especially when the weather is bad? At least in analog we could still get sound even without the picture. Now take this all to the “Next Step” commercial radio digital broadcasts??? Seems that Digital TV has several little secrets!
Like “rain fade without rain, the frozen pixels and of course dropped sound”.
Try watching a newscast with several words or sentences dropped, or a movie with the same affect. They just seem to Forget to mention these types of things. Digital is great in the way that Hams use it, confirming received and error checking. I just wonder how emergency broadcasts will do over digital TV, especially when the weather is bad? At least in analog we could still get sound even without the picture. Now take this all to the “Next Step” commercial radio digital broadcasts???

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