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Re: [LUG] OT: Telly signal quality

 

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:53:13 +0000
Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Tom,

> On Friday 14 March 2008 07:36, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > That's the problem;  With more channels, but the same number of
> > advertisers to pay for it all, the jam gets spread thinner.   :-(
> Its worse than that - the creative talent gets spread thinner but the
> creative output is a cube of the thickness so twice as many channels
> means 1/8th the overall creativity. 

I wouldn't put it as bad as that.  Inverse square, certainly.  But
inverse cube law seems too strong to me.

As for analogue being more bearable in poor transmission conditions, I
agree.  *I* want to decide when a picture is too poor to view, not some
bit of electronic gear that has not aesthetic values whatsoever.

A snowy picture is preferable, IMO, to one that just stops and starts
every 15 seconds or so.

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