That's a bunch of BS. SciFi on DirecTV is absolutely gorgeous.
There is no telling what bit rate they are using for MPEG4. Nobody knows but DirecTV. However, there is no reason for them to drop quality as low as you are saying. None. They have the satellites. They have the bandwidth. More than Comcast, it would seem.
Besides, I can see for myself that the video quality of the new HD channels is awesome.
“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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That's a bunch of BS. SciFi on DirecTV is absolutely gorgeous.
There is no telling what bit rate they are using for MPEG4. Nobody knows but DirecTV. However, there is no reason for them to drop quality as low as you are saying. None. They have the satellites. They have the bandwidth. More than Comcast, it would seem.
Besides, I can see for myself that the video quality of the new HD channels is awesome.