On 3/8/2010 9:18 AM, scott wrote:
>>> (And that of course is the other undesirable thing about digital TV.
>>> There used to be, like, 5 channels, 4 of them containing high quality
>>> programming. Now there's 500 channels and they're *all* showing utter
>>> crap that nobody would ever want to watch...)
>>
>> That has nothing to do with digital TV. It's just the drop of quality
>> programming happened at the same time. Correlation != causation.
>
> If we were still limited by analogue bandwidth to only 4 or 5 channels,
> I fail to see how 99% of the rubbish channels that there are now would
> even exist. The fact that digital allowed a couple orders of magnitude
> more channels to be available IMO caused the average quality of
> progamming available to drop massively.
>
> Do what I do, simply program in the best channels, ignore the other 99%
> of channels, and suddenly you can be back to almost a reasonable average
> quality level.
>
>
Hate to tell you, but with some exceptions, most of those channels 
**did** exists, you just had to be bloody stinking rich, or have an 
illegal satellite unit, to watch them. Most of the stuff added *since* 
have been duplicates. I.e., 4 different ESPN ones, instead of 1, 3-4 
different ones for every movie broadcaster, instead of just 1 (or 2 in 
some cases), Disney used to have 1, now its 3, at least, etc. Heck, you 
can find ABC, CBS, NBS, etc. on 3-4 channels now, where they all only 
had *one* previously. Then.. with digital you now have about 5% of them 
with specialized HD versions.

Nope. What is on the cable line up today is pretty much what was there 
10-15 years ago, if you where in a large city, with the exception of 
maybe less than a half dozen added since. The only major difference is 
that now you a) have them all bundled as packages, so you can't pick the 
ones you want, instead of buying the whole mess of crap with it, and b) 
you can get more of them, in places you would be lucky to get 10 
channels 15 years back.

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