joetaxpayer
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Sudbury, MA
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said by pnh102  :said by alg :Now our local stations are running crawlers with phone numbers/websites if you are getting poor digital reception. I see nothing wrong with that. Many broadcasters had no way of knowing how well or how poorly things would work out until after the switch. I thought there was no "poor digital" not like weak analog. Either you get a signal or not. |
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Network Guy
join:2000-08-25
New York
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| said by joetaxpayer :said by pnh102 :said by alg :Now our local stations are running crawlers with phone numbers/websites if you are getting poor digital reception. I see nothing wrong with that. Many broadcasters had no way of knowing how well or how poorly things would work out until after the switch. I thought there was no "poor digital" not like weak analog. Either you get a signal or not. Poorly as in not able to anticipate the broadcast audience that no longer gets the channel due to poor signal strength, usually the case when the channel came in weak in analog to begin with. No way of telling how many can't get it now, or if anyone gives a shit. |
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joetaxpayer
I'M Here Till Thursday
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Sudbury, MA
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| said by Network Guy :Poorly as in not able to anticipate the broadcast audience that no longer gets the channel due to poor signal strength, usually the case when the channel came in weak in analog to begin with. No way of telling how many can't get it now, or if anyone gives a shit. I meant the quote from "getting poor digital reception. " implying one can have marginal signal. |
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Network Guy
join:2000-08-25
New York | Yes, you can have marginal digital signal. It will manifest itself in pixelation, freezes or intermittent loss of reception on any particular channel. |
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cdru
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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said by joetaxpayer :I thought there was no "poor digital" not like weak analog. Either you get a signal or not. With analog, a poor signal may result in ghosting, speckles, color issues, etc with the further you go away the worse it gets.
With digital, you really don't have those issues. If the signal is strong enough to get a picture, it should look the same and not suffer from the analog issues. However if the signal isn't strong enough, you have new issues that show up. A weak signal may be able to get there some of the time, but not always. This would be indicated by jerkyness of the video or a "no signal" type of message depending on how the TV handles it. You could also have tiling where just portions of the screen become garbled. |
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