We have cancelled our HD service due to over compression / poor image quality in the few HD channels available to us and their HD broadcasts.
HDNET was super. The rest was generally up-sampled and looked worse than SD. I will not pay a premium price for mediocre quality. When I returned the box to Adelphia / Time Warner, the lady behind the counter said "Well I have HD and I don't see anything wrong with my image". Right. On her standard TV ... Talked to a local executive of the ABC affiliate and he understood the issued, but said the signal was based on whatever ABC headquarters decided and made available to them, that they were not the source of the programming, nor the cable company. Which is true.
Too bad. I really like HD. Maybe in a few years I'll be back on HD when channels start to decide it is important to have a crisp image that doesn't have to catch up with itself (artifacts, ...) .
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We have cancelled our HD service due to over compression / poor image quality in the few HD channels available to us and their HD broadcasts.
HDNET was super. The rest was generally up-sampled and looked worse than SD. I will not pay a premium price for mediocre quality. When I returned the box to Adelphia / Time Warner, the lady behind the counter said "Well I have HD and I don't see anything wrong with my image". Right. On her standard TV ... Talked to a local executive of the ABC affiliate and he understood the issued, but said the signal was based on whatever ABC headquarters decided and made available to them, that they were not the source of the programming, nor the cable company. Which is true.
Too bad. I really like HD. Maybe in a few years I'll be back on HD when channels start to decide it is important to have a crisp image that doesn't have to catch up with itself (artifacts, ...) .