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and one thing that keeps getting lost in the public discussion is that it keeps being "sold" to us as "wow, now you'll have HD on all the time,
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This has NOTHING to do with HD and no one is "selling" that. Boy you're a fucking retard.
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and the regular channels will have digital clarity"... bullshit. The dirty little secret is that your TV stations will look worse than before. I used to work for a major player in the business, and it's relatively simple - analog you can't do much to squeeze extra efficiency. With digital on satellite for example, on one transponder you might have 12 stations in crystal clarity. but you can dial back the quality in the encoder and squeeze in an extra 6 channels of PPV movies or time shifted channels by mixing high complexity signals (sports channels etc) with low and averaging the bandwidth needs of the 18 stations so it effectively gets juggled. BUT, that has a big effect on the picture quality especially when watching on a high quality LED or plasma. So you'll but a great new HDTV, turn it on and see an HD signal full of artefacts from the lossy compression they will use. same thing for standard size channels. They will be digital, but look worse than their analog predecessors.
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Once again GOD DAMN you're fucking stupid. Blah blah and you don't even have a fucking clue. First of all an analog signal uses as much bandwidth as 4 or 5 digital channels. Hell even a HD channel use LESS bandwidth than an analog channel. At anyrate what does that rant have to do with the digital transition for OVER THE AIR broadcasts? You get those via ATTENNA not cable or satellite. Also as far as HD goes you can get your locals with a regular old antenna too. You don't need to get those through cable or satellite.
Not only are you confusing cable/satellite with OTA you are confusing HDTV with digital TV. Yes HDTV is digital, but not all digital TV is HD.
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Cable's days are numbered anyhow, VOIP will render dedicated boxes unnecessary. Youtube's closer to the future of TV than most people think.
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VoIP is for VOICE that's what the V stand for numbnuts. Are you trying to refer to IPTV?
Do you ever watch youtube videos? The quality sucks ass even on the "best" ones. There's not any site I know of that steams videos that even look as good as analog SDTV let alone digital SDTV or HD. A HD stream would require a site to stream it at a minimum of 8-9 Mbps no sites do that and even if they did the average American household that does have broadband internet conenction is about 1/3 that speed. Not to mention that 25% of households with an internet connection still use dial-up. Mabe at most 10% of households have an internet connection capable of handling a HD stream. That's assumign they use their internet connection for nothing else while streaming. If you've got 2 computers and a XBOX 360/PS3 hooked up to the internet and running all at once you can forget about getting that HD stream even if you connection was 16 Mbps.