After watching a BD or HD-DVD, I want more from my cable provider. I was watching Lost the other night and the compression is evident. During some scenes, their faces looked a little blurred, and artifacting is obvious especially during fast moving scenes. Don't get me wrong, it looks great, but I feel for the money I paid for my setup, the PQ should be better, and there isn't enough "true" HD content out there.
As an apartment dweller, I'm compelled to use DirecTV... and I loathe them. They have been super slow to upgrade my building to the new dish necessary for MPEG4 HD channels, they've been jacking around with channel selection and now I don't even get all the channels I had a year ago and last but not least: THE COMPRESSION!!! Who cares if it's HD when all you see are compression artifacts dancing on your screen--annoying unsightly little cubes are unsightly at ANY resolution, thanks.
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After watching a BD or HD-DVD, I want more from my cable provider. I was watching Lost the other night and the compression is evident. During some scenes, their faces looked a little blurred, and artifacting is obvious especially during fast moving scenes. Don't get me wrong, it looks great, but I feel for the money I paid for my setup, the PQ should be better, and there isn't enough "true" HD content out there.
As an apartment dweller, I'm compelled to use DirecTV... and I loathe them. They have been super slow to upgrade my building to the new dish necessary for MPEG4 HD channels, they've been jacking around with channel selection and now I don't even get all the channels I had a year ago and last but not least: THE COMPRESSION!!! Who cares if it's HD when all you see are compression artifacts dancing on your screen--annoying unsightly little cubes are unsightly at ANY resolution, thanks.