How good was broadcast NTSC/PAL in practice?

[mr_rye89]

I remember in 2001 my dad/step mom renting a friend's apartment that had a nice big Trinitron and broadcast TV looked great on it. It was in town so no noise, and it probably had the fancy comb filtering too. I normally lived 30 mi out of town so there was noise/snow even with an outdoor antenna. Noise went away in '09 with the digital switch, but those pesky mpeg2 artifacts

[ppppenguin]

Originally Posted by mr_rye89

.......Noise went away in '09 with the digital switch, but those pesky mpeg2 artifacts

Remember how striped shirts caused lurid colour patterns in PAL? In NTSC you got comb filtering before we did, simply because it was a lot easier.