 tcp1Premium
join:2000-04-17
Herndon, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
| Please. I wish the word "digital" would disappear Ok, for the cable company plant a few posts above.. Value per channel? Since when is that ANY measure of value? If I have 368 channels of Telemundo, who is that more of a value for save for Herve Villechez? Please. You forgot one term in your equation - number of channels * QUALITY of channels = value.
Also, would everyone please get off it with these bs definitions:
"digital = clear"
"digital = higher quality"
"digital = better in any freaking way"
That simply is ****NOT TRUE****
I can encode something "DIGITALLY" and easily make it look worse than my rabbit ears on a 1978 Zenith console TV. Digital has jack to do with it -- and since these marketing SCHMUCKS think that us dumb consumers will "OOH AAH" over the idea of 500 channels even if each one is 32kbps and more quantization artifacts than a PXL-2000 camera. I was watching some NCAA basketball at the COX HEADQUARTERS yesterday in Herndon, VA, and the dang basketball was barely recognizeable as such.
There's a general rule here. Anyone who uses the word "digital" without qualifiers when referring to quality, is an idiot, know-nothing fool who is trying to sell you something. Anyone who defines "value" as just "a lot of something" is also a dense douche who can't see past his curly nosehair.
Digital cable could be great - cut the NUMBER of channels in half, increase the QUALITY of the "DIGITAL" transmission and encoding and the QUALITY of the content.
That's not the case now. I really dont care if I can get E! East Coast *AND* E! West Coast. Same crap, different time zone.
And I'd also like to take any cable company yahoo to task on the "DIGITAL" issue. I have to say it again because I'm so sick of hearing that! DIGITAL simply means that the information is transmitted by using discrete values versus an infinitely varying signal (analog). Something transmitted DIGITALLY can ensure that what's received is exactly what's intended to be received, and THAT'S ALL.
If you send mung down the line, you're gonna get mung on your TV set, and that's that.
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