Adam Hunt Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 The only ting that would remotely interest me is that the HD signals, according to David Mullen and others on here, look better over the airwaves than with the typical compression algorhythms used with cable and dish TV. The difference is night and day. The satellite and cable channels are riddled with compression artifacts. I did a free trial of the local HD cable service and the HD channels were down right unwatchable. They verge on "web-quality" style artifacts. It's insane to pay X amount of dollars a month for that. Here in Toronto we get about 20 digital HD channels over the air and the quality is decent. Not Blu-ray quality, but most of the time there are no seriously apparent artifacts. And 20 channels for free is a price I like. I'm lucky if I watch 1 or 2 of those channels a week. I watch much, much more movies on Blu-ray than I ever watch TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Sprung Posted December 7, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted December 7, 2010 The satellite and cable channels are riddled with compression artifacts. That's true in many cases. I work for the studio side of CBS, and the guys over on the network side now have a requirement in the retrans agreements that the cable and satellite providers must pass through the full 19.4 MBits/sec that goes on the air. -- J.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Hunt Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 That's true in many cases. I work for the studio side of CBS, and the guys over on the network side now have a requirement in the retrans agreements that the cable and satellite providers must pass through the full 19.4 MBits/sec that goes on the air. Good to hear. Maybe other channels will do this and make the cable companies smarten up. Broadcast standards are slipping way too much in so many areas, it's good to see there is a push for having professional standards again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas James Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 The problem with an over the air CBS or NBC interlace 1080i sports broadcast is the picture looks like garbage with massive compression artifacts. However an ABC, Fox and ESPN which uses the progressive scan 720p format the picture rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Keith Walters Posted December 8, 2010 Author Premium Member Share Posted December 8, 2010 The problem with an over the air CBS or NBC interlace 1080i sports broadcast is the picture looks like garbage with massive compression artifacts. However an ABC, Fox and ESPN which uses the progressive scan 720p format the picture rocks. That has nothing whatever to do with whether its progressive or interlaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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