Re: Digital TV: Why do we have to have it?

And why replace it with Something worse?



For me Digital offers Inferior performance to Analogue TV. I am probably a
bit less than 30KM from the Transmitters and receive good clean Picture
quality on analogue however the STB (I am now on my Second STB the first had
a noticeable delay between Audio and Picture in addition to the other
problems) often pixelates, freezes and causes loud short squeals.

I do not own a HD TV nor can I justify the cost at the moment so I do not
actually get any benefit from Digital TV unless I was prepared to spend more
money.

I am not really sure why I bothered with the STB -except a Friend lent them
to me long term (ie they were/are free) and I generally find watching
analogue TV a lot less of a nuisance (due to the issues listed above) so I
tend to watch Analogue and probably  will until the ignorant sods turn it
off.

I am starting to get the feeling that where the 80's and 90's may have been
about getting Technology to improve performance - ie CD players etc that the
push nowadays is for Consumers to accept lower quality goods ie Digital TV,
Typical 'Home theater Systems' MP3 Players and Mobile phones.