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piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoModern Tv project fake static when there is no siginal because of fimilarity. OTA broadcasts are all digital, either you get a siginal or you dont.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Some TVs may project fake static.
Just because OTA broadcasts are digital doesn’t mean you are stuck with all or nothing. You can definitely have poor signal and see or hear something other than what was intended. Doesn’t manifest as analog static, but depending on your decoding and error correction schemes, you can have cut audio, frozen frames, iframe inconsistencies, and stuttering.
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
No digital is all or nothing. What you are describing is some digital packets making it through and the algothrim is designed to accept some packet loss. Its more complicated then i make it out, but thats the jist of it.