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SvennoJ on 08 December 2013
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Zappykins said:
SvennoJ said:

Glad somebody else notices that analog tv is far superior to the digital crap SD you get. Unfortunately it has all been phased out here.

One of the main reasons for switching to digital television is the need for more spectrum, commonly referred to as frequencies or airwaves. Spectrum is used for wireless telephone services, emergency communications, etc.

Digital signals use less airwave space than analog signals. This means that the freed-up space can be used for other services that have a high demand for more space. Digital technology also provides better picture and sound.

Blatant lies. I now have an ugly digital box taped to my CRT tv, with a 2nd remote, and crap picture quality. Progress....
In busy scenes analog TV outdid digital HDTV broadcasts. When the strobe lights go off, HDTV turns into a 360p you tube video :/

Digital tech does provide a much superior picture than analog for TV's.   An analog 1080p signal, wouldn't look so great.

Sounds like you may have, what my cable company tried to give to me - a really crappy digital tuner.  The tuner in my TV is dramatically better, but they are phasing that out in favor of their new secure cable channels.  So my picture quality will dramatically suffer because of their unneeded security - Which is why I will probably drop them.


I am surprised you are still using a CRT.  They tend to produce much heat and consumer much electricity.  You might want to check it out that you could upgrade to a LED LCD TV and possibly pay for itself over the electricity savings.  Plus, I think you would enjoy the dramatically better picture.

I still have a ps2 hooked up to a CRT in the basement, that looks better on CRT (probably mostly nostalgia and smaller screen size)I never use it for TV, but taped the free digital tuner box to it anyway since analog signals are slowly discontinued. (and tv tuners become worthless, all secure now) The quality isn't any worse then the SD channels on the fancy digital tuner box already were on the HDTV, they are simply as bad now. Digital can provide a better picture, but the bandwidth spend on SD channels is laughable.

The analog channels are slowly disappearing though, most automatically switch to HD quality when you select the old analog tv station. So yes they look better on HDTV.  Ofcourse that quality is still debatable, HD streams vary between 6mbps (dvd quality) and 15mbps mpeg2. It will be better when they finally make the switch to h.265