Broadcasting & Cable - July 25, 2004

During the mid '90s, a team of students at MIT undertook an experiment to see whether the quality of a TV signal's audio track could impact the perceived quality of the video track. Participants sitting at a monitor were told to indicate when the picture quality began to degrade. Time after time, the response was the same: When the testers degraded the audio signal, the subjects would indicate ...

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