[mythtv-users] Better Satellite Service in the US

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Thu Jul 24 19:45:41 UTC 2008


> On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:26:12 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> 
> > I have this exact same solution (except I have DirecTV and not DISH)
> > in place and honestly, I'm quite happy with the quality of S-Video
> > from the HD Satellite boxes and enjoy not having to have massive
> > frontends to display the big pretty SD quality content. It's in a nice
> > wide-screen format that I would say is somewhere between DVD quality
> > and the crappy quality I was getting out of the SD Satellite boxes.
> > Oh, and this SD quality is much better than the quality my friend gets
> > from his HD Comcast DVR connected directly to his huge Plasma display.
> 
> Yeah, the HD I have seen from cable is not too great. My local cable company 
> advertises that you do not want satellite because the signals 
> are "aggressively processed".
> 
> The implication is that the cable signals are not so processed, but from what 
> I've seen CATV HD is even more mangled. I guess they are safe, because it 
> would be hard to get a precise legal definition of "aggressively".

my old comcast HD was terrible, both directv and comcast are "processed" but directv
uses a much better algorithm in keep the quality up there. comcast however
doesnt and looks crappy.



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