On Thu, 8 May 2008 17:12:17 -0700 Daniel W. Rouse Jr.
<dwrousejr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| This concerns OTA DTV audio dropouts, will this problem eventually get
| fixed?
|
| Currently, it seems that if the picture develops more than just a small
| amount of artifacts, even if the picture is still in motion and is still
| mostly discernable, the audio immediately drops out once the artifacts
start
| to appear. (In that respect, analog broadcast seems much more robust in
the
| audio aspect of the picture, in that even a snowy analog picture that
was
| still able to broadcast in color retained its audio, albeit with audible
| noise within the audio.)
|
| My own expectations are that the audio should only drop out when the
picture
| actually freezes, before it recovers or when No Signal gets displayed.
| Digital TV is supposed to be better picture (which it is, when a
situation
| that causes the display artifacts doesn't occur) and better sound (Dolby
| Digital up to 5.1 channels) but I am also expecting better reliability
| (i.e., less signal drift and less audio loss).
The video equivalent of what your audio is doing would be to insert black
blocks whenever the video ****tion of the bit stream is too far corrupted
to be error corrected.
The audio equivalent of what your video is doing would be to stutter the
audio a few times whenever the audio ****tion of the bit stream is too far
corrupted to be error corrected.
The behaviour you are getting is the behaviour I would prefer. Whet is
the behaviour _you_ would prefer?
The "problem" to fix is your reception. Put a photo of your antenna on
one
of the free picture slide show web sites and give us a link to it.
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