[opendtv] Re: Digital Better Than Analog?

At 8:39 PM -0400 7/26/07, Albert Manfredi wrote:
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 is absolutely correct about the poor quality of analog cable on most new digital TVs.
We only subscribe to the HD digital tier, so I can't say much about the SD digital programming on Cox cable here in Gainesville. From what I have seen it is better than the analog, but it still must be de-interlaced, which causes a hit in quality.
Most of the reports I have read suggest that SD via cable is usually better than SD via DBS. I suspect that the cable guys understand that the DBS guys are compressing too hard, and try to provide somewhat better picture quality. 

In reality everyone is compressing too hard, even broadcasters.
The situation with SD is not going to improve much until we get rid of interlace. But then it will become EDTV, not SDTV.... 

Regards
Craig


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