Posted by the dog from that film you saw on 08/24/07 11:49

"root" <NoEMail@home.org> wrote in message
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> 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.



most people, myself included consider picture breakup to fall into the no
picture camp - you either get the picture in all its original quality, or
you dont get a proper picture at all.
many people will happily watch a slightly fuzzy analogue picture.
they won't tolerate a digital picture with random breakup however.



--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

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