Speaking of picture quality

We were sold Digital TV on many bases, one of which was that picture quality would be much improved. Well, in many cases it's proved to be at least equivalent to analogue, and I look forward to receiving HD soonish.

However, I rather think that in at least an equal number of instances picture quality has worsened. When City came on last night I immediately took up my usual pozzy close to the telly but had to back away quickly as the pixellation was so bad: not much better than when you briefly switch youtube to full screen before realising it's (often) a bad idea.

I remember ITV's coverage of some Final or another at the end of last season: there was a shower of graffiti and ticker tape and the TV couldn't cope with it. Mine couldn't, anyway.

So the picture quality thing was bulls**t, then. What we HAVE gained is countless channels packed with utter s**te.

Oh, OK and a couple of good 'uns too. I suppose what I'm saying is Hmmmm.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad on October 11th 2009 at 13:33:54

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Speaking of picture quality (NCFC) - Sugbad The Bad, Oct 11, 13:33:54
- It's to do with the compression of the video data. You think the UK is bad, wait until (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Oct 11, 14:33:44
  - how long will we have to wait? (NCFC) - Tombs, Oct 11, 16:40:23
- In terms of picture quality, switching from a crt monitor to tft (NCFC) - pants, Oct 11, 13:49:43
  - If you buy a cheap monitor you get a shit picture (NCFC) - Ben, Oct 11, 13:58:56
- agreed, current tv pictures are a disgrace (NCFC) - Charles21, Oct 11, 13:44:22
- All countless channels means to me when I get home is (NCFC) - pants, Oct 11, 13:41:13

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