Hi,
I far as I can tell we can say this with confidence, but not much else!!
DTV is better, both the signal and the sets.
I have still got the old analogue TV and a SD PVR (a Topfield) and I would not watch anything now off the analogue signal. The letterbox format of the old 4:3 TV is also a dreadful pain, but as yet I am too cheap to buy a proper DTV. We do have the good digital aerial setup with the good coax cable however.
My son has a HD TV upstairs which I can use for comparison if I puff up and down the stairs quickly enough not to forget what the picture looked like. There is not a lot of difference in the SD pictures between the 2 screens, apart from the 16:9 format. The picture is noticably better on this HDTV on
some HD channels but not others, and I wondered why not all of them.
It seems not all the free-to-air channels broadcast the best possible HD signals. Aha. Some broadcast 1080i (interlaced) signals but others only 720p (progressive). There are no 1080p signals, yet. However, plasma and LCD screens are not by nature interlaced and must fiddle the 1080i signals to be progressive. Trouble is some of them process it to 720p (which is still called HD, just not bees-knees HD). So you lose something some of the time.
An old analogue CRT screen however is by nature progressive, and some of them, like mine, do quite well indeed on a diet of digital signal converted by a STB to 576p. So there does not seem much point to getting a HD STB (spend the money on a 16:9 HDTV).
I'm not sure what the point of all this rambling is, but one forum poster even says "In the coming months there will no longer be any full HD on FTA TV" because they won't have the necessary bandwidth. Going backwards.
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=htf_dtv_hdsd
http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=80289
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/h...0714-dk3r.html
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...m/1174159.html
http://www.cnet.com.au/digital-tv-in...-240000380.htm
It is enough to make you turn off the TV and go outside and take up astronomy.
Cheers