Our senses are being deceived

F: ENTER the SWITCH!

From analog to digital radio, analog to digital television broadcasting, still photographs to digital camera images, film cameras to digital video for theaters, beta and vhs tapes to digital video discs, viynl disc jockeys to computer filter dorks and active analog networks to digital audio processing. Our ability to perceive and respond to real events are being degraded. Our senses are being deceived on a continuing and constant basis.

1. Radio:

The Switch from analog Frequency Modulation Radio Broadcasting to Digital FM has been slowed by differing standards and devices and technical failures of early formats. Also TIO have not been as concerned with it as, even if you have and utilize analog recorders, with FM(a) the sound is bandwidth limited and noisy even with good reception. So even tho it is analogous to to actual music, it has already been stripped of some of it is ability to affect people and alter reality. That and TIO already knows how to deal with radio Dj's who get too creative with their resources (r.i.p. Alan Freed ).

Digital FM brags of crystal clear reception, multiple format subchannels and multiple channels. It fails at best. Each station has much smaller area of clear reception even at greater wattage, no fringe reception beyond. That is due to digitals' severely steep drop off in signal beyond it is now limited radius.

Yes, there are multiple formats or subchannels being broadcast by each digital station, so it seems like there is more choice, more material being presented. However this illusion was easily pieced by early adopters of cable, who long ago coined the phrase "57 channels and still nothing on". It is no substitute for a single analog station actually playing music that people really want or need to hear. Rather than what some monetary interests decide they want you to be programmed with.

As for the audio quality itself, once a recording (even an analog one) or even a live performance has been through a AD\DA converter and sampled into binary code, it no longer has any fidelity, not even low fidelity. It has only a slight mathematical relationship to the sounds it purports to represent. This also explains the increased use of multi - channel audio (5.1-9.1 surround sound) as immersion or enveloping effects can mask the lack of fidelity.

2. Television:

The Switch from Analog to Digital broadcasting was more more sudden and forced by the FCC upon the NAB to conceal not only the problems and the reasons behind them, but also the massive theft of the broadcast bandwidth by government agencies. The same airwaves formerly used by analog broadcasters and now resold to private commercial interests.

It should be noted that the airwaves and the bandwidth (frequencies) contained in them are legally the property of all the inhabitants of the planet. Not the monetary entities who buy licenses to use them. These rights are now being obscured and abused. At the time they were granted to be held by us all, TIO already controlled all of the land and deemed the air to be of little value.

Licenses can, have been and should be challenged, as it is plain that broadcasters and other owners of licenses are no longer serving the public good, even by the diluted definitions of the FCC. This is apparent in the "news" that is little more than disaster reports for voyeurs of suffering and horrors. The "weather" that is always alarmist stay at home scare report guessing and exaggeration. The "sports" that are militarized spectacles of combative conflicts, substituting for the actual festivals people used to throw for each other every two or three days.

Add the constant propaganda of the war on humans a.k.a. the war on drugs ; terror ; others. Also known as 'what you should fear right now'. Not to mention the marketing warfare campaigns and subliminal behavior modifications known as advertising. Which now pollute even public television as well as pay television and make watching an even greater hazard to your health.

Much hoopla was made of the "Free Digital Converter Coupons" to compensate owners of older TV sets so they too could tune into the new digital frequencies and be subject to digital programming. These converter boxes were cheaply made offshore with clunky interfaces and unstable chip sets that lose their scanned channel memories often.

Worse is the much smaller digital broadcast range and clear reception area of each station, since this results in frequent total loss of signal. With digital this means shredded images and total loss of audio. Not just rain or bad weather interferes with digital reception. Wind (even a little), if there are leaves on nearby trees, air pollution (particle, mold and pollen counts), humidity, barometric pressure, flocks of birds! With the old analog broadcasts, if reception was poor, there was still a recognizable image, even if it was banded or snowy and the sound while noisy did not drop out entirely.

With digital, even with a good signal, there are still lots of digital artifacts, motion artifacts, lost frames or portions of frames, altered depth of field, pixelization, dropouts, blocking, misplaced pixels, frozen frames or portions of frames , voice sync loss, voice register distortion et cetera. If the FCC and NAB were actually serious about compensating viewers for the added costs of switching to digital, there should have been coupons to cover the cost of mast mounted roof top antennas and installation as well as decently designed converter boxes. We do know if we were an advertiser and saw what the terrible reception did to the digital broadcast picture, we would not be paying money for digital air time.

Perhaps it is all a subterfuge to move everyone to buy newer TV sets and wire them to a pay provider and then illegally sell off the airwave bandwidth yet again. It is clear that TIO profited enormously off the earlier sale of the public airwaves. Some would say that once you have everyone hardwired into the system of networks, it is easier to make it an active network and then make viewing mandatory. Is that a rabbit hole? Or just rabbit ears? Why would anyone want a system that delivers lower quality to fewer people at a higher cost? Why would anyone not want a broadcast station to be able to reach vast numbers of people clearly , with high quality content ... oh wait ... it is another rabbit hole.

3. Photographs:

Those taken with film are actual recordings of photons reflected off material surfaces, focused through a lens onto a light sensitive film emulsion. They are provably real records of real places, people and events. They cannot be altered without the alterations being detected. Images taken with a digital camera are none of these things.

What a digital camera takes is an amplitude pixel grid captured with a series of Charge Coupled Devices, usually one CCD for each color group (red , green , blue =RGB). It may represent something real or it may not. Since each pixel can be digitally altered and the alterations cannot be proven to have occurred. In other words , it can, has been and will be faked.

A more subtle distortion is the difference between taking photographs and capturing digital images. Images are rarely composed with the same attention to technical aspects, detail or artfulness that photographs on film are. Also there are seven (ROYGBIV)colors to real visible light, not the three (RGB) that digital devices are capable of conveying.

4. Films:

Again as with still photos, movies shot on film look real, feel real and are for the most part real. To be precise you can do tricks with lenses, angles, focus, exposure, lighting, shadow, filters, editing and developing the film that will alter what the viewer sees. These alterations can be traced and proven however, unlike digital imaging, digital processing or digital special effects. The latter has become highly developed, especially image capture and 3-D technology and the cost has been coming down. Leading us all closer to mutable realities that cannot be distinguished from actual reality.

For some time now movies have been tending towards becoming much more immersive experiences where one accepts the suspension of disbelief required more and more readily. Now images cast by such relatively dim lumen sources on silver, silica or phosphor screens or induced out of LCD's, LED's or plasma fields have not been shown to have objective effects upon reality like similar sums of energy in the lower wavelengths of sound have. Yet they can and do have subjective effects upon individuals, which collectively can affect reality. If you've accepted the suspension of disbelief to watch a movie and you believe what you see is real and no one can prove it is not. Well, which way really is up?

PEACE ! ©02010 ©02011 Cee Are & CkaS

Note this is a section from an earlier post "Regaining Your Rights"