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So, if you are going to ask someone in a poll if they have experienced a condition that is the result of compression shouldn't you at least make sure they poll taker that they know how to identify and rule out other causes of video and or audio anomalies?]]>Apr 5th 2008 12:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 7th 2008 12:46AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 1:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 6th 2008 3:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 12:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
The VOD implementation could include the increased HD channel compression as part of the plan, the changes for VoD, itself, may have temporarily impacted signal quality/cc pairing, or the video/audio quality problems I have been seeing on HD channels may be completely unrelated (sun spots, anyone?).

However, Comcast is allegedly cramming three HD channels into each QAM, I see compression problems as the more likely suspect -- at least for the video issues. I have not heard that this may affect cable card pairing, but that is also a possibility.]]>Apr 5th 2008 12:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
I would bet that even the pay channels like HBO or Showtime get compressed by Directv, but happily not as much as before. I am actually going to be happy with Directv (for the time being), but when you compare to FIOS... my money is on FIOS!

However, Directv has great customer service.... and Verizon is the worst. big surprise... but a fat internet wideband could be worth it.]]>Apr 5th 2008 1:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 1:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 1:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 1:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 1:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 3:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 7th 2008 8:48AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
I will be getting FIOS as soon as possible.]]>Apr 5th 2008 2:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
Once I was watching ESPN HD and the video quality was just absolutely terrible. I switched over to ESPN in Standard Def, and the image quality actually PICKED UP. They had compressed the HD signal so bad that the standard def signal looked better.

Why couldn't they compress the standard def more is what I wonder? Most SD TVs are so far away from a person, and so small, that people won't be able to tell the lower image quality.]]>Apr 5th 2008 2:09PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 3:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/addition of 4 new lame HD channels most of them are unwatchable.
pixel noise, frames locking up, dropping out, sound dropping out.
it's ridiculous. ]]>Apr 5th 2008 2:24PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 2:39PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
FIOS (verizon) is un-bucking-felievable. I have never seen an image as close to that real and CLEAN on even lower quality TVs (this ALSO includes their standard definition images) EVER. Clear winner here.

DirecTV is also pretty good, just FIOS here is the clear winner IMHO.]]>Apr 5th 2008 4:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
i -can- get fios, and am considering it... just i don't like verizon. but then again, i don't like cablevision either.

]]>Apr 7th 2008 11:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 3:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 6:34PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Particularly on fast motion (motion blurr and sometimes a thing called judder) all your Hi Def turns to Hi Blur and you wonder what you paid so much for. And yes, the less compressed, normal def feed sometimes ends up looking better. This can be a frustrating situation, and there is only one answer...you have to try setting your cable converter to a different resolution and adjusting the HD tv resolution to match and give you the best picture.]]>Apr 5th 2008 3:37PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 6th 2008 1:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 5:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 7th 2008 6:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 6:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 6:10PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 6:53PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 9:00PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 8:22PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/]]>Apr 5th 2008 9:00PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 9:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 9:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 9:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
I think it is just like anything else they sell you on the technology with great introductory pictures and slowly lower the quality and hope you won't notice. I am just at a point that it is what it is.]]>Apr 5th 2008 9:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/Apr 5th 2008 10:36PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/]]>Apr 5th 2008 11:20PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
Watching BSG last night was sad when I can switch to SD SciFi and zoom the damn picture and be nearly the same quality.

It really sticks out when I watch a Blu-Ray then go back to cable and see just how badly the compression is.]]>Apr 6th 2008 12:14AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/05/poll-have-you-been-affected-by-over-compressed-hd-feeds/
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My local Fox Boston has gone down hill in the past few weeks, at times it has looked worst then the worst HD channels out there being NBC.]]>Apr 12th 2008 9:17AM