Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> That sucks. I don't really want to buy an HDTV because I can still see 
> all the digital compression artifacts after working on image compression 
> code for a few years.

  Finland switched to digital TV broadcasting recently (not necessarily
a good thing IMO), but I haven't bothered buying any kind of receiver
(too expensive, especially for the cable version).

  I recently was at a home where they were watching TV and I got to watch
it from really close. I was shocked at the bad quality of the image! It was
full of mpeg compression artifacts. It was almost like watching a youtube
video in full-screen.

  It seems that digital TV broadcasts use less than half the bitrate of
a typical DVD, and you can sometimes spot mpeg artifacts even in DVD movies.
No wonder the image quality of the digital TV was so bad.

  I clearly remember how they advertised digital TV as increasing the
image quality compared to analog broadcasts. BS.

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                                                          - Warp

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