OTA HD [ was: [OT] HDTV recommendations? ]

[Dave Germiquet]

Hmm,

The issue I have with it, is that Digital is either good on, or it goes in
or out, or not in at all.

At least with Analog OTA you could watch still with a somewhat static
picture if you didn't have fully good coverage.


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:18:17PM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> > Can someone tell me, do Analog AIr Waves really fill up the spectrum? And
> if
> > it does, what other plans are for them?
> >
> > Like why are we clearing them up? Is there something else that needs
> them.
> >
> > I kinda like Analog OTA.
>
> Well we are replacing them with Digital OTA in most cases.
>
> TV signals happen to be in a band that is excellent for long distance
> coverage.   Makes sense for TV signals really.  Of course some people
> think we should have mobile internet services in those bands instead or
> at least in addition to TV.
>
> Digital OTA takes less bandwidth for much more picture than analog could
> ever do, so overall it is a nice change, but it does obsolete a ton of
> existing equipment.
>
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