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punkypink (imported)
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Re: Definitions
Eh did you guys have to switch to digital TV there too? I thought that problem only existed in the UK! My tv reception's been driving me nuts for the past couple of weeks now.
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Old Greebo (imported)
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Where I am, the Digital thing has improved the quality of my tv reception a thousand-fold. I think my terrestrial aerial is badly aligned, and watching analogue was like watching tv through a snowstorm.
With digital, however, it seems you get a perfect signal or you get buggerall.
Mostly, I get a signal.
Actually, I'm currently paying Sky a fortune per month, but I don't think I'm getting value for money and I'm quite likely to be dumping them soon. And besides, the trees across the road will probably grow another bloody two feet higher this year and obliterate my signal anyway!
Digital radio's another matter, however.
I'm in the wild bit of Wales. The middle bit, where mountains ... (oh shut up you Americans, with your Rockies and your Ozarks and things. I don't care! My cottage is 750ft above sea level. The hills that surround me go up another 750ft, and my nearest 10,000 neighbours are sheep.)
What was I saying?
Ah yes. Digital radio. And mountains.
We're supposed to be getting digital radio here in Wales. But here, the mountains get in the way. If I lean out of my (upstairs) bedroom window with a straightened-out wire clothes hanger attached to the aerial of my DAB radio, I can JUST pick up a signal for ONE of the several digital radio stations that are supposed to be available to me. Great, except I'm talking about my bedside radio, and I want it to work when I sort of semi-wake at 9am after a superb night of slumber!
FM radio does still work here. Long wave is horrible. Medium wave - well, I can ignore it! It needs to be ignored!
I'll admit I've never fallen for all the digital hype.
When you think about it, the very nature of digital broadcasting has to be a reduction in quality, because it reduces all the smooth curves of analogue signals to staccato upwards/downwards steps. It only scores when the smooth-curved analogue signals consistently fail to come through properly.
But ah, what was the original point of this thread? Oh yes, it was ...
Irony. Or Riverwind's understanding of what irony is.
Gareth19, I suspect you're probably right. Maybe there is a bit of confusion between 'irony' and 'paradox'. But it's not **material** confusion. Language specialists might argue for decades over this, but (sigh!) who cares these days?
Anyway, here's a new one. Isn't it ironical/paradoxical that we're all supposed to be fighting against climate change, while several scientists are saying that a bit of global warming will actually help to make the Sahara desert fertile and abundant again?
With digital, however, it seems you get a perfect signal or you get buggerall.
Mostly, I get a signal.
Actually, I'm currently paying Sky a fortune per month, but I don't think I'm getting value for money and I'm quite likely to be dumping them soon. And besides, the trees across the road will probably grow another bloody two feet higher this year and obliterate my signal anyway!
Digital radio's another matter, however.
I'm in the wild bit of Wales. The middle bit, where mountains ... (oh shut up you Americans, with your Rockies and your Ozarks and things. I don't care! My cottage is 750ft above sea level. The hills that surround me go up another 750ft, and my nearest 10,000 neighbours are sheep.)
What was I saying?
Ah yes. Digital radio. And mountains.
We're supposed to be getting digital radio here in Wales. But here, the mountains get in the way. If I lean out of my (upstairs) bedroom window with a straightened-out wire clothes hanger attached to the aerial of my DAB radio, I can JUST pick up a signal for ONE of the several digital radio stations that are supposed to be available to me. Great, except I'm talking about my bedside radio, and I want it to work when I sort of semi-wake at 9am after a superb night of slumber!
FM radio does still work here. Long wave is horrible. Medium wave - well, I can ignore it! It needs to be ignored!
I'll admit I've never fallen for all the digital hype.
When you think about it, the very nature of digital broadcasting has to be a reduction in quality, because it reduces all the smooth curves of analogue signals to staccato upwards/downwards steps. It only scores when the smooth-curved analogue signals consistently fail to come through properly.
But ah, what was the original point of this thread? Oh yes, it was ...
Irony. Or Riverwind's understanding of what irony is.
Gareth19, I suspect you're probably right. Maybe there is a bit of confusion between 'irony' and 'paradox'. But it's not **material** confusion. Language specialists might argue for decades over this, but (sigh!) who cares these days?
Anyway, here's a new one. Isn't it ironical/paradoxical that we're all supposed to be fighting against climate change, while several scientists are saying that a bit of global warming will actually help to make the Sahara desert fertile and abundant again?
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A-1 (imported)
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Well, Greebo.
At least YOU will be O.K., 750 feet above sea level and all.
Look at it this way. You will soon only have to descend 150 feet to get to the beach...
At least YOU will be O.K., 750 feet above sea level and all.
Look at it this way. You will soon only have to descend 150 feet to get to the beach...
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A-1 (imported)
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Re: Definitions
punkypink (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:50 am Eh did you guys have to switch to digital TV there too? I thought that problem only existed in the UK! My tv reception's been driving me nuts for the past couple of weeks now.
Well, P.P.,
I guess with this New World Orger thingie we are all getting SCREWED at the same time with our pants UP...
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