CABLE WILL LOOK BETTER - Not at all. Analog Cable is going to look like complete crap. SDTV Digital Cable and DirecTV as well, as you can now see the MPEG artifacts clear as day. This stuff was normally hidden by the low-res and scanlines of regular TV. Also, nothing at all analog is 16x9 so get used to squished looking people, or black bars on the sides.
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CABLE WILL LOOK BETTER - Not at all. Analog Cable is going to look like complete crap. SDTV Digital Cable and DirecTV as well, as you can now see the MPEG artifacts clear as day. This stuff was normally hidden by the low-res and scanlines of regular TV. Also, nothing at all analog is 16x9 so get used to squished looking people, or black bars on the sides.