Digital TV slower than analogue television
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The future is sluggish
We are told it is the land of plenty, more channels, more choice, but it actually is adding to the couch potato time of New Age digitised viewers.
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The Analogue switch over! We are being sold the future as digital; cars, kitchen appliances, cameras, TV, radio, supermarkets. But the future is sluggish. The future is not performing and there is no instant gratification...
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| 03-10-2008 | grumpyoldwoman; 10 out of 10 for this gripe? I'm afraid I'm going to lower your average, Lafcadio and supporters, with a resounding 0/10. Oh, for the test card from midnight to the early hours (after all, why should I choose my own bedtime?), 3/4/5 channels, snowy pictures (even in a summer...more | BadMood |
| 01-10-2008 | Like most respondents, I appreciate your elegant gripe and the sentiments which generated it. The answer to your original question - without going too techie - is that it's the fault of the 'guvmint'. Our Lords and Masters have discovered tha radio spectrum, like many other resources wh...more | Gilgamesh |
| 20-8-2008 | Reading this has filled me with a bit of nostalgia. I remember that test-card. I think that particular young girl must be getting on in years by now. I remember too when TV used to go off at around midnight and we were serenaded by the national anthem before bedtime. We had three channels then, B...more | Gavin |
| 20-8-2008 | "Well said", Lafcadio, in both senses of the word. You've hit the nail squarely on the head in this gripe, and you've said it beautifully and humorously. Indeed an excellent piece of writing.
I'm about to give up our Sky subscription because we have about 3500 channels of...more | MikeP |
| 20-8-2008 | Most of the digital technology that is going to be forced on us is, like most things these days, unnecessarily complicated with far too many features that nobody wants. Has anyone thought about how old people are going to manage?
As you say it is also slow; I bought a hard drive recorder a while ba...more | grumpyoldwoman |
| 19-8-2008 | There is still a core of die hard monochrome watchers in the UK, the total count at Jan 2008 was 34,700 licences held. Are these people to be forced to go colour? Or will there be a black and white digital receiving television manufactured just for them? Just a thought, I think I know the answer. | nodnops |
| 19-8-2008 | What a fabulous piece of writing there. Take a bow Lafcadio. Your post entertained me more than my television has in a long time. I've never been a great viewer of the television. Unless a particular football team is playing I can largely leave it switched off. I normally have better things to d...more | Freddie |
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