Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.tcpreset.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.48.red-79-150-116.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: OT - TV Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:40:12 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <118cshs$2v7m0$1@dont-email.me> <118k6e4$1ktct$1@dont-email.me> <118k92h$1lmpe$1@dont-email.me> <118k99o$1lugq$1@dont-email.me> <118k9tn$1m5fr$1@dont-email.me> <118kd2b$1n865$1@dont-email.me> <118lm86$2478c$1@dont-email.me> <118mr13$2itk3$1@dont-email.me> <118o9kf$2vr36$6@dont-email.me> <118p8sb$3c3gt$1@dont-email.me> <6ab13e85$0$3230586$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <118ritl$3itb$2@dont-email.me> <118s4ub.1130.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <118s7it$bikd$1@dont-email.me> <118t6mg$k4sv$1@dont-email.me> <118t8fd$kiul$1@dont-email.me> <118ufls$133g0$1@dont-email.me> <11903t1$1iec7$10@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="48.red-79-150-116.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.116.48"; logging-data="30580"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <11903t1$1iec7$10@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:34991 alt.comp.os.windows-10:195968 comp.os.linux.advocacy:722466 comp.os.linux.misc:92009 On 2026-09-23 10:50, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 22/09/2026 20:52, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-09-22, J. P. Gilliver wrote: >> >>> On 2026/9/22 7:50:21, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> Digital preserved picture quality well down into the noise. Error >>>> correction and lower bandwidth needed enabled qualiry pictures long >>>> into >>>> the realm where analog became unwatchable >>> >>> But, for some reason, digital failure due to low signal is far more >>> irritating than analogue. To me anyway. I think it's the "cliff" thing. >> >> Agreed.  Nowadays it's all or nothing.  The concept of >> "graceful degradation" seems to have gone out of style. >> > The point is that the graceful degradation is masked. What would be > unwatchable on analogue stays almost perfect until it dissappears in an > instant. Here, some channels I get with brief interruptions, the image freezes for a second or so. Sometimes minutes. Sometimes the image interrupts for less than a second, then sections of the image take a second or two to recover. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;