Cable High Def on my Samsung DLP

powerlord

I finally went with the local digital HD package from my cable Co.Thinking I'll save hundreds of bucks on HD movies.I'm dissapointed,the picture looks nowhere near the HD quality of BR or HD DVD's,and this is on their HD channels,the closeups are crystal clear like HD should be,but the picture as a whole is lacking,and I mean fuzzy and smeared,especially in motion.Did I buy into a bunch of hooey,or is this just the way it is?I know some films aren't in HD and are upconverted,but the actual HD programs are this way too.

Sami

Unless you get Verizon FIOS you have to live with huge compression. That's how HD broadcast is. It's much better than SD-DVD but won't be anywhere close to HD-DVD or BR.

powerlord

Hmmmm,I wouldn't call that getting my money's worth then.:rolleyes:

Serendipity

It depends on the cable provider and the amount of compression. Luckily Time Warner Cable in NYC has been getting better - a few years ago their HD signal was barely acceptable, now it's close to a good OTA signal or even my high-def HTPC.

bobman1235

powerlord wrote: »

Hmmmm,I wouldn't call that getting my money's worth then.:rolleyes:

It's a limitation of the technology, they only have so much bandwidth to present stuff to you. It's easy and tempting to try and blame them for trying to screw you, but they're legitimately doing as much as they can with what they have.

disneyjoe7

With OTA signals being pretty easy to getting at least one anyway. I would compare our OTA signal to our Cable HD signal. This if your TV as a HD tuner, but that sucks if cable compresses that much.

Sami

powerlord wrote: »

Hmmmm,I wouldn't call that getting my money's worth then.:rolleyes:

I have Dish and while they aren't anywhere near FIOS quality most of the programming is still decent. Only dark scenes are very bad.

powerlord

When I was picking up HD on the local channels with my rabbit ears, the pic was excellent,and on HD theater the pic is great.But most of the channels are the quality of a cheap upscaling DVD player.

disneyjoe7

I'm 90% happy with DirecTV, but if picture is really important to you... You need a BUD Big Ugly Dish 8-12' ft dish, the picture you can get from that is premo. One of the biggest draw back is that it was a PITA to use a TiVo or Replaytv with it, this is where I come in now supporting the control connection to a DVR to C-Band.

In a since you became you're own cable company.

Ricardo

I can't be more happy with my OTA antenna. Not a huge selecon, but I do get all the major networks HD programs and enough football/baseball/basketball games to keep me satisfied. Picture and sound quality is absolutely awesome in my 1080i, and the best thing is that all I paid was like $75 for the antenna, and no fees are going to anybody

john22614

I agree.....I have the OTA set up too, and it is superb. Sometimes the best things in life are free.....the only provider HD channel I've seen that was really good was HD Net on Direct TV.....but their programming sucked. And, by the way Ricardo.....you need some bigger speakers.

Serendipity

I have OTA, and it ROCKS!

Compared to cable, their quality sucks. But it's getting better for some reason, as I guess they've removed some old channels so the compression is less?

Ricardo

john22614 wrote: »

And, by the way Ricardo.....you need some bigger speakers.

I know; just ordered 16 of these for a custom pair of SDA 1.2 TL's. Still looking for the appropriate passive radiator.