Too true
Years ago, when I was profligate, I bought a 50inch Pioneer Plasma. Yes, I know, the power usage fucks the planet. But this was 6 years ago. Anyway, watching sports on it was like watching a PS2 game. Not good. I'm now happy with a CRT and have no inclination to upgrade.
In my opinion all digital mediums suck:
- DVDs. I'm now on my 3rd DVD player trying to get one that is capable of handling errors on discs gracefully. In the days of VHS, if there was a dropout on the tape, you would get a blurred image / muffled sound for a short period, but unless the tape snapped or spooled, you could still watch the film. On DVD, if it goes wrong, the film stutters, stops - the viewing experience is ruined. In these days of mega-cheap memory, the disc should be buffering and handling errors gracefully - seeking out the next part of the disc that works and playing it, not stuttering / freezing etc. For God's sake, if there is (as there is) a time signal on the disc, it's not rocket-science to do this. And don't DVDs scratch easily ?
- CDs as with DVDs. I now don't use them, have everything streaming from an MP3 server using a Squeezebox. I'd rather trade the sound quality issues (I use 256k encoding) against having songs that skip. I'm waiting for HD space to become cheap enough at the terabyte level to make streaming DVDs possible
- Digital radio. Apart from Radio 3, it's compressed to fuck

Digital sucks.
( I_Was_Mordred, Tue 4 Dec 2007, 10:51, Reply)