Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Well, the shops have all this split-screen stuff, with one side in SD
> and the other side in HD. The only difference I can see is that the HD
> is very slightly less blurry. But it's a tiny difference - certainly not
> worth paying £20,000 for.

20k£? Where do you shop? :O

> In reality, we just swapped analogue distortion for compression
> artifacts. (And - if you're talking about transmission - a different
> failure mode in case of interference. Although admittedly it takes more
> interference now to make it fail.)

Yes. OTOH the digital signal fails fully when it fails, with analog
signal you're still able to get the information from the news with even
very bad signal (while you don't want to see a movie with such signal).

-Aero

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