Watching "over the air" TV using a DTV converter box I noted a 2 to 5 or more second delay between channel changes.
I am guessing the delay is due to buffering of the frames before displaying the screen and the screen being blanked so not to see fragments of the images. Is the slow channel change more of the converter box having a slower conversion(less powerful CPU etc) Do other converters change channels faster? I am assuming the different formats 480I,480p,1080i,720p have different time delays because of the pixel count differences and the computation change due to that and frame rates.
So is the slow change a ATSC tuner converter issue that can be "fixed" (more money) with a "better" converter or is it something people are just going to have to live with?
So far not a fan of the pixelation and just going blank and other crap like not being about to see HDTV channel13 over the air NY NJ because of low power. My tax dollars at work and then you have the patents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_Standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_Licensing_Authority
I am guessing the delay is due to buffering of the frames before displaying the screen and the screen being blanked so not to see fragments of the images. Is the slow channel change more of the converter box having a slower conversion(less powerful CPU etc) Do other converters change channels faster? I am assuming the different formats 480I,480p,1080i,720p have different time delays because of the pixel count differences and the computation change due to that and frame rates.
So is the slow change a ATSC tuner converter issue that can be "fixed" (more money) with a "better" converter or is it something people are just going to have to live with?
So far not a fan of the pixelation and just going blank and other crap like not being about to see HDTV channel13 over the air NY NJ because of low power. My tax dollars at work and then you have the patents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC_Standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_Licensing_Authority