Unlike the repeater towers that are sometimes used in western states (AKA translators), SFNs aren?t simply receiving the signal, error-correcting, and retransmitting on a different frequency.
The improved audio and video playback performance is due to IBM researchers having found a way to partially disengage the error-correcting feature that most hard drives use to regulate the transfer of text-based files, which can interfere with video downloading, the company said.
The practice is alive and well in corporate America today, with many executives and team members alike more concerned about who takes the fall for a bad decision or a mistake than in correcting the error.