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Subject: Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:44:48 -0700
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:03:05 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

>On 2/26/25 10:04 PM, Don Y wrote:
>> On 2/26/2025 9:52 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>> Leave aside the ghosting, which could largely be addressed by having a 
>>> decent antenna.
>> 
>> Analog television had two distinct issues:  one was multipath problems
>> (bummer), the other was that you COULD eek a signal out of the ether,
>> even a bad one (contrast to digital which is essentially "all or nothing")
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>That's exactly the problem. I told one station manager that it would be 
>a mistake to go full digital (well, the government made them) and even 
>more of a mistake to give up their VHF channel without a fight. That it 
>would erode viewership in the fringe areas, hence for people with more 
>disposable income, who will migrate to the Internet, resulting in 
>advertising income to drop, which will lead to painful staff cuts.
>
>He didn't believe me. And then pretty much all that happened.
>
>[...]

It doesn't make much sense to blast megawatts of RF out into space,
for a modest amount of one-way bandwidth.