Analog OTA

[antdude]

Continuing the discussion from Wonderfully weird 1961 Russian kids book about space flight:

@Eksrae

If only space exploration were that glamorous, more people would look up to astronauts as great explorers.

Continuing the discussion from The new “Cosmos” is getting great reviews:

@NickyG

ATSC reception can certainly be finicky, and it tends to be all-or-nothing, and you’re much less likely to get an ATSC broadcast at all, for a channel that was “borderline” back in those old-fashioned analog OTA broadcast days of yore.

I miss the analog OTA TV when we could still watch partial quality.

[noahdjango]

preach it, brother. usually, even the worst signal, the sound would come through fine. the picture might be blurry but like it was going through an effects processor–it was a regular pattern to it and you could still make it out.

digital OTA is perfect when your reception is perfect, but the sound and picture completely vanish when a plane flies overhead, when a car drives through the parking lot, when my neighbor walks around.

and, OY! the lag! I hit five buttons on my remote and assume i didn’t have it pointed at the sensor since nothing happened. try again. oh wait, there’s the numbers I hit initially, and now here they are the second time analog was always instantaneous.

digital is the future, they said.

it makes everything easier, they said.

[antdude]

Yep. Newer stuff isn’t always better. [sighs]