[opendtv] Re: Digital Better Than Analog?

Dan Grimes wrote:


Is the quality of digital cable better than analog?

Last time I saw digital cable, the quality was worse than
a program recorded on a bad VHS tape in Extended Play
(the slowest speed).  This was the case for a Time-Warner
digital cable saw I saw weeks ago (ironically on an HD set).
Cox Cable here in Las Vegas is a little better than the
Time-Warner service I consumed in a small city in California,
but still not the quality Cox's analog service.


Whew!
All I can say is, on a deinterlacing LCD TV, which more and more people are buying, the quality of analog OTA TV, from the cleanest OTA channels, is very clearly inferior to that of any SD (or HD) DTT broadcast. Even on my 26" set, the difference is striking. Even sitting at my usual ~10' viewing distance. Could cable be so different? Maybe. 


I think analog SD on Cable is better than most digital SD
products on Cable.  But I have only watched a few digital
Cable products so perhaps I am wrong.

So will all those customers with DTVs push for an all digital
cable system? Perhaps, but I suggest that it would not be
because of picture quality.
If digital cable is that bad, they will have to improve, or people will start bypassing them. Did I mention on here that the guys at Best Buy have told me that they tune to OTA HD stations when they pipe sports programs to their sets? They said the picture is better than they get from cable. 

Bert

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