Posted by root on 08/24/07 11:08

ChairmanOfTheBored <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote:
>
> With HD, if you are getting picture and sound, you are getting it all,
> and there is NEVER any picture degradation. If the bit error rate is too
> high, it will drop out completely.
>

By HD I think you mean simply Digital. It is not true that you either
get no picture or a perfect picture with a digital signal. As the
signal-to-noise ratio decreases there is a region in which you get
breakups in the picture just like you do when you get pixillation
while playing an imperfect DVD. Further decrease in S/N results
in complete picture dropout.

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