Warp wrote:
>   Moreover, one could argue that in areas with bad reception the situation
> has got worse. With analog TV bad reception means more white noise, but
> at least you get to see and hear something, which may be quite important
> if you are eg. watching the news or weather report.
>   With digital TV, however, bad reception means that the broadcast stops
> playing at moments.
>   The human visual system is more permissive of noise than intermittent
> playback. Intermittent playback may even mean incomprehensible message.

I was in Las Vegas during a wind storm couple of months back, and they 
eventually had to switch the televisions in the sports betting area from 
digital (some sort of HDTV in this case) to analogue for exactly this 
reason.  People were not so pleased when the picture and sound cut out 
right before a big play was about to be made.  It ended up being a 
pretty good advertisement for analogue television though.

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