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Originally posted by No Clue
While he may have a few inaccuracies in his blog and his choices in technology are questionable (see bose lifestyle system), I tend to agree with him that HDTV is not ready for primetime. My Voom box requires a reboot any time I want to watch it, my direct tv HD feeds suffer from serious overcompression, and the local OTA HD signals suffer from so many artifacts (pixelation from multicasting or freeze frames from multipath issues) that they are often unwatchable. Occasionally when the stars are aligned in their proper paths, I will receive a picture that is absolutely gorgeous to make it all worthwhile. But we aren't quite there yet to call it ready for PT.
Steve |
You went with a start-up company with a background in the cable television and they didn't do sufficient product development prior to launch. That's unfortunate, but expect from an early-adoption endeavor.
DirecTV overcompression is not restricted to HD channels. During the past two years, I watched the DirecTV delivered local channels get worse and worse, and this
business practice to strain transponder capacity is no fault of HDTV, but rather DirecTV.
As for OTA its always going to be dependent on topology, weather, etc. Ever lose a cell phone signal? Maybe you have had perfect cell phone coverage but a great many people including myself have not, and the quality of the connection equally dependent on range to tower and weather. Again, not mutually exclusive to HDTV, but rather
digital TV that is OTA.
And while no service is perfect, I bet the NTSC offerings 8-10 years after its 1940's launch was much less in quality, coverage, and content offerings even without the Bosean over-inflated margins.
