Comment Re:So much for long distance Listening (Score 1) 293
Indeed with digital TVs I witnessed some crappy sound disruption that made the show unwatchable, at times.
With analog TV, we did have a digital sound track called NICAM, which could get disrupted : then we got fall back to analog mono sound. Some TVs had the option, sometimes on the remote to force analog mono sound, which is useful if it's constantly jumping back and forth between the analog mono and digital stereo track.
A good FM receiver may have a switch to stay in mono for about the same reason!, this time it's purely analog but you have mono + "stereo information" that are combined to form a real stereo signal (LP records are similar), if reception is bad there's a fall back to using the mono part only.