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...Then there's the issue of quality. Every pixel that crosses your satellite dish starts and ends its life as a digital signal. A lot of cable channels are still transmitted in lower-quality analog; you usually have to pay extra for digital channels. As someone who has spent the past year hooked up to both DirecTV and AT&T cable, I can testify that shows on satellite are better-looking than the same broadcasts on cable, even on digital channels. (Then again, AT&T has yet to seed my block with fiber optics...
...HOLD THE ROAM Many service plans charge extra for analog roaming or for digital roaming outside your specified region. If your phone has the capability, try setting it to digital roam only, or setting it to alert you when it moves into analog territory. You could save yourself from some ugly charges...
...tear the song apart as electric squelches and null-lines further the sense of claustrophobia. “Ping Pong” uses, appropriately, the sound of bouncing ping pong balls to accentuate its streamlined boom-bap. “Silver Heat” juxtaposes jazzy scat with fat analog bass, and “Mega” swells suddenly into an awesome Wagnerian attack replete with synthetic symphony, choir and ovation. True to their name, Anti-Pop’s music borders on the absurd, thriving on its excesses. Arrhythmia is the consortium’s best work...
...year's end every commercial TV station is supposed to be broadcasting digitally, with all analog transmissions to cease by 2006. But with more than half the nation's stations seeking delays, FCC chairman Michael Powell this month went on the offensive (right before a critical broadcasters' meeting), urging networks, broadcasters and equipment makers to rush digital-TV offerings to consumers by 2003. "I agree with Cuban that HDTV is inevitable, but it will take 10 years," predicts Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat's principal analyst for digital TV. The savings of all-digital production will win out, especially because such...
...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] Analog video is usually recorded at about 300,000 pixels; digital is higher. Don't get lower than...