Posted by Richard Crowley on 06/12/06 14:08

"Ty Ford" wrote ...
> The pity is that after multi-stream broadcasting, HD really isn't HD
> any more
> due to compression. Even with only one HD stream, according to a TV CE
> here
> in Baltimore, the compression on O-T-A broadcast is something like
> 40:1.
> The last amazing O-T-A HD I saw was NBC's coverage of the Utah Winter
> Olympics.

These days, the pixel dimensions are only an indication of the
resolution of the original. Unless you are in the control room,
you never get to see the original quality as all the distribution
methods, satellite, cable, disc, etc. are significantly compressed.
Even "uncompressed" analog NTSC suffers from distribution
degradation. Many people are amazed when they see plain
old NTSC in studio quality in the control room (vs. their lousy
TV set at home.)

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