XPost: rec.music.gdead, sci.electronics.design   
   From: trevor@home.net   
      
   "Arny Krueger"  wrote in message   
   news:r7udnV8SGZfcH-rQnZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > The results are not classic pixelation but rather a decrease in   
   > resolution. Pixelation implies sharp edges.   
      
   Call it what you want. How sharp the block edges are simply depends on your   
   equipment, but the resolution is always lower for lower bit rates.   
      
   >> I was talking about 1960's TV shows,   
   >   
   > But you didn't say that.   
      
   In fact I did. Or at least "1960's *RE-RUNS* that are obviously NOT high   
   definition in any sense of the word, and NOT even WIDESCREEN" certainly   
   implies it rather than the cinerama movies etc. you assumed, which obviously   
   ARE widescreen!   
   Not that all digital transfers of widescreen movies are even made to   
   widescreen format (or HD). IME many DVD movies are still 4:3 because they   
   have simply used an old video transfer. And then they are shown on TV. You   
   are not going to claim that a movie originally transferred to video tape   
   then to DVD, is somehow going to be HIGH DEFINITION just because it's   
   transmitted on a Hi-Def channel I hope?   
      
      
   > There seems to be more channels than good high quality programming. But   
   > who is surprised?   
      
   Not a problem, I just wish there was SOME actual Hi-Def programs still being   
   transmitted here. They were when we first got digital broadcasting.   
      
      
   > I've been on cable since the 70s.   
      
   Lucky you, I have never missed it (or paying for it) until I bought a large   
   screen TV, and they stopped screening HD material on our HD channels.   
      
   > If you want the IP, you're going to pay.  The only question is which   
   > currency.   
      
   Our TV channels are still making a LARGE amount from advertising, just as   
   they always did. And they got BIG taxpayer funding to convert to digital   
   equipment. And even our *taxpayer* funded government owned channel now   
   screens ONLY news on it's HD channel, preferring to show all the wonderful   
   BBC documentaries that were once on it's HD channel, but now solely in SD   
   (no not San Diego :-)   
      
   So yes, my taxes and advertising dollars are still paying, but now I am   
   being short changed!   
      
   Trevor.   
      
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