Chris, you are correct with the service provider abuses. DirecTV's version of HD is less than a shadow of real HD. And now they've sold their customers that they can deliver a better PQ on their local HD than OTA. Sorry, the notion that 1280 by 1080 is full HD is a joke. Yet, most consumers are too ignorant and the government too uncaring to take action.
“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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Chris, you are correct with the service provider abuses. DirecTV's version of HD is less than a shadow of real HD. And now they've sold their customers that they can deliver a better PQ on their local HD than OTA. Sorry, the notion that 1280 by 1080 is full HD is a joke. Yet, most consumers are too ignorant and the government too uncaring to take action.