Comment by andsoitis
7 months ago
> Honestly, the best picture quality I’ve ever seen was over 20 years ago using simple digital rabbit ears.
That I find super hard to believe!
7 months ago
> Honestly, the best picture quality I’ve ever seen was over 20 years ago using simple digital rabbit ears.
That I find super hard to believe!
Why? ATSC is 19Mbps. A single 1080i video using that whole bitrate will look quite good.
Many confounding factors. That’s just one dimension of image quality. Others include things like the panel quality, production quality.
that's 19mbps including error correction. only 10 after, and that's using mpeg2 which is probably roughly equivalent to 6-7mbps av1
"A terrestrial (over-the-air) transmission carries 19.39 megabits of data per second (a fluctuating bandwidth of about 18.3 Mbit/s left after overhead such as error correction, program guide, closed captioning, etc.),"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_standards#MPEG-2
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