Glad to hear somebody is looking into this issue and looking for a good standard. We notice a big difference between the few HD channels we receive.
On most of the major broadcast companies' HD channels, their signal is overcompressed - either by them or the cable company (Time Warner in our case). Exactly the same issue as with most of the digital channels that suffer from pixelation, granular and fuzzy image. At least there you could blame it on SD on a large TV set.
In the few days we've had HD, we're not really impressed with the current state of affairs. Save for like HDnet and the HD music & sports channels, I find it sad to see HD suffer the same over digitization where it takes a second or two for enough pixels to arrive for an accurate & sharp representation of peoples faces, fuzzy logos, catch up with movement ...
“While it's not exactly punching it out with the heavyweights in multi-room audio, the Mint Studio does certainly hold its own with many similarly-priced iPod docks out there.”
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Glad to hear somebody is looking into this issue and looking for a good standard. We notice a big difference between the few HD channels we receive.
On most of the major broadcast companies' HD channels, their signal is overcompressed - either by them or the cable company (Time Warner in our case). Exactly the same issue as with most of the digital channels that suffer from pixelation, granular and fuzzy image. At least there you could blame it on SD on a large TV set.
In the few days we've had HD, we're not really impressed with the current state of affairs. Save for like HDnet and the HD music & sports channels, I find it sad to see HD suffer the same over digitization where it takes a second or two for enough pixels to arrive for an accurate & sharp representation of peoples faces, fuzzy logos, catch up with movement ...
I think our HD cable box may go back ...