[LINK] Digital TV could see viewers left in the dark [WAS: Digital TV, live in the clouds, you may not see it]

[sylvano]

On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:28, Craig Sanders wrote:
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> the only time there's ever any interference is a noticable 'click' in
> the audio and sometimes weird pixelated artifacts in the video (both
> very short-lived) when our bathroom light is switched on or off. it's
> an old compact-flouro. the newer CFs in all our other rooms don't cause
> this.

Interestingly, I got that effect as well from the hand held gas lighter gun 
for lighting my stove...

Now that I've moved from an aerial feed to the screen to a video-in feed, the 
electrical induced clicks don't happen.

The other noticeable effect that surprised me was the availability of regional 
stations (I'm in the lower north shore of Sydney) that aren't there with 
analogue.  With the autoscan function of the digital boxes, I wonder how many 
other people have suddenly gotten access to free to air variants, on top of 
the expected new channels of the parliamentary network, the expo channel, 
macquarie network, etc.

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Sylvano