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Lo-Fi Phones and the Future
bossanovalithium writes "Back in 1936 — 74 years ago — boffins accepted that about 3.3Khz was the accepted frequency that telephone calls are going to run on and it's been like that, generally, ever since. Call quality is reasonable but leaves a lot to be desired. Think calls from Skype to Skype where quality is often crystal clear." It's crazy to me that (for people with decent mics at least) Ventrillo sounds better than corporate conference calls.
yeah! and do you know how hard it is to find leaded gasoline nowadays?
How did the FCC make your television stop working? did it come to your house and smash it with a hammer?
Oh, you mean that your perfectly functional television is incompatible with the current state of transmission technology. That's totally different, and really just indicates that you were unwilling to do the once-in-a-century thirty-minute chore of driving to a store and getting your free-after-rebate converter box. Boo hoo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are enjoying significant improvements in both entertainment and emergency communications. From where I'm sitting, it was worth it.
I live in a 3rd world country too (USA), and we can often barely get a signal for our barely 3G devices.