That's not HD's fault, it's DirecTV. They compress the crap out of HD to get more channels through the bird. You local cable outfit will do the same thing. It's breaks our hearts to know what the pictures really look like when they leave the transmission site versus what the home viewer ends up seeing. You should see the beautiful pictures leaving a sports truck doing a baseball or football game. It's incredible.
Here again, HD DVD and Blue Ray disks will outshine all broadcast HD TV, and broadcasters and cable networks will be right back where they started as second class providers of good looking video. Quite the opposite of when I started in broadcasting 20 years ago. Too bad.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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That's not HD's fault, it's DirecTV. They compress the crap
out of HD to get more channels through the bird. You local
cable outfit will do the same thing. It's breaks
our hearts to know what the pictures really look like when
they leave the transmission site versus what the home viewer
ends up seeing. You should see the beautiful pictures leaving
a sports truck doing a baseball or football game. It's incredible.
Here again, HD DVD and Blue Ray disks
will outshine all broadcast HD TV, and broadcasters
and cable networks will be right back where they started
as second class providers of good looking video.
Quite the opposite of when I started in broadcasting
20 years ago. Too bad.
Dan