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Geek Culture / Do you have terrestrial tv in america

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Lessons In Love
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Posted: 31st Aug 2008 23:58
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Hey everyone i spoke to a mate on msn who said that televisions in america didnt receive broadcasts via terrestrial (aerials) is this true? and also which is better pal or ntsc? because i have heard that ntsc isnt as good as pal.
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I have terrestrial. PAL has a higher resolution but less frames per second, so I guess there's a tradeoff. However in February NTSC will be done away with in the United States and replaced with ATSC, a digital HD standard. It will still be available over the air though.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2008 00:40 Edited at: 1st Sep 2008 17:32
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Ahh the new standard for UK is going to be DVB-T (digital terrestrial), DVB-S (satillite) and DVB-C (cable) i think but i was under the impression that there was no non-subscription tv service in america by that i mean tv that is free. it aslo seems that cable is the way most people get tv whereas in england most people i know have satallite or digital terrestrial, cable is common in some areas but its not availible everywhere. satillite is probably the most popular way to get tv hardly anyone has a non-subscription service as far as i know.
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Yeah, everyone in America who does not already have digital cable will be forced to either buy or get a box from the government. In 2009 that is. I personally can not wait for all the people who "Didn't Know" about the switch over .

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I think we have already started our digital switchover in the uk they're doing it region by region and it ends in 2012. I feel sorry for people who own them handheld tvs no more tv on the go im afraid.
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Quote: "I feel sorry for people who own them handheld tvs no more tv on the go im afraid."


You can watch it on some mobile phones and there are usb dongles available to watch digital t.v. on your laptop.


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Quote: "Yeah, everyone in America who does not already have digital cable will be forced to either buy or get a box from the government. In 2009 that is. I personally can not wait for all the people who "Didn't Know" about the switch over ."


Me too. I predict it's going to be mass chaos, similar to what Y2K would have been had it done anything awesome.

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I don't like how everybody says the quality of digital is superior to analog, every time I watch digital TV I see blocking on gradients and artifacts on contrasting edges.

Reminds me of watching Realplayer clips.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2008 09:57 Edited at: 1st Sep 2008 09:59
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Yes, aerial and digital aerial is still free. The misconception may come because I would say most people in the states have cable or statelite, simply because it's better quality in a lot of places.

In big cities like Chicago, New York, LA, etc, I think most people use aerial because quality's fine there.

I personally don't get any tv You'd do well living without it for a while, you'll realize you don't miss it

My mother said that we once went for a while without tv when we were growing up and we had a lot of fun without it, we were doing family type things. I asked her why we ended up getting tv again and she was like, *shrug*. So, I dunno, I think my children would do fine without it


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Well we have a satallite subscription in the living room about 1000 channels and i have digital terrestrial in my room which gives me about 40ish channels which is better than the 5 channels you get on analogue terrestrial the only thing about the digital terrestrial is that there is only about 15 channels that are good. Either way if you own a tv and use it to watch television you're quite sad/a sucker if you still use the analogue service (there's never anything good on!). I remember when we first got rid of crappy analogue terrestrial. We had a subscription with Cable and Wireless lol now theres a company who knew a good selection of channels they didnt have loads of crap channels to make it seem like an "extensive range". Nowadays theres only a few good channels and the other 985 are crap. I dont watch that much TV now i mostly use the computer to entertain me.
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Quote: "I don't like how everybody says the quality of digital is superior to analog, every time I watch digital TV I see blocking on gradients and artifacts on contrasting edges."

Well it depends where you are digital seems a lot more efficiant than analogue in terms of quality and signal coverage but i suppose that if you compare analogue cable to digital cable then there wouldn't be much of a diffrence because there isn't as much signal deterioration with cable but still of course whereas with analogue you would get a little bit of static and maybe a bit of snow you get a blocky picture with digital. but to be honest the advantages to digital are more than analogue (better bandwidth = more channels)
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