[opendtv] Re: Digital Better Than Analog?
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:23:22 -0400
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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