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| Lack of Bandwidth Oversight Damages HDTV Quality                   |
|   from the buy-some-bigger-tubes dept.                             |
|   posted by Soulskill on Friday July 25, @21:59 (Television)       |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/25/2330215 |
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mattnyc99 writes “Over at Popular Mechanics, Glenn Derene has a great new
column [0]investigating the lawless lands of broadcast television, where
the quality of the picture that ends up on your expensive hi-def set is
determined by a bunch of fuzzy math. Quoting: ‘In fact, there’s no real
regulation over high-definition picture quality at all — “none
whatsoever,” one industry consultant told me. And that’s part of the
reason why different HD stations often have wildly varying levels of
picture quality that change from one moment to the next. Behind the
scenes, content producers, broadcasters and cable and satellite providers
are engaged in a constant tug-of-war over bandwidth and video quality,
with no hard metrics to even define what looks acceptable. Even officials
at HBO, where Generation Kill looks pretty fantastic on my TV, bemoaned
the lack of a silver bullet … for now.’”

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Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4275063.html