Digital cable needs better quality standards

Kizzume

I personally prefer looking at REAL white noise than looking at NASTY jpg compression.

Here's the differences--you'll probably forever notice this after seeing this if you didn't notice already:

original

analog cable

digital cable

To me, watching an old vcr tape taped on slow (slp/ep) looks better than watching many digital cable channels. I hate bad jpg compression. I've tuned in on it now to where I can even see jpg compression on a dvd on a 12 inch tv--at least with a dvd you can usually only see it on poor-quality dvds (but you can still always see it on dark lighting fades). I sometimes HATE how I notice things--I really wish I could just turn that part of me off like a switch.

The thing I wonder is whether there's ANY quality standards that are going to be implemented in 2009 besides forcing everyone to look at jpg compression. I just hate it. I REALLY hope there will be some sort of upgrade to the digital tv compression standards--like switch to jpg2000 or something, or switch to something completely new. JPG compression produces such an awful-looking image unless it's set for super-high quality. For dvds it works because they're able to have the quality up high enough--USUALLY.

Why hasn't this sort of thing been upgraded? Do people honestly not notice this? Do banking companies care that it is literally impossible to read the fine print in their commercials because the compression is so bad?

Am I alone in this?

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

Well, this is another topic I can't comment too much one. The reason? I don't have cable, and my tv is not hd or anything like that. It is pretty old really. I bought it 6 years ago. It is even older than my computer!

jq · Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 1124

I also do not have a VCR Sad

Kizzume · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject:

Well, the next time you're at someone's house who DOES have cable, watch for those elements. I just don't understand how it was supposed to be an upgrade from analog other than having more channels. People say, "I don't see the fuzz, it's clear", and my response is, "Yeah, the fuzz is blurred out by the compression." but people just don't notice it for some reason. People think I'm nuts. You have to pause a frame and then point out specific things--then they'll see it for a time.