On 23/01/2017 08:26, Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 01:02:05 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
The big step reduction in quality happened when digital broadcasting
began.

Not quite. The first HD broadcasts via OnDdigital were considerably better
than today.

Yes, that's true. But it wasn't ten minutes before the accountants
learned that you could cram more channels in by cutting bit rates.


ITV fell foul of that in their first attempt at going digital.
Initially aimed at selling sport to pubs with the promise of lots of
choice but the pictures were very prone to break-up and it was an
expensive flop.

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