Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Bruce from DC (i) on October 09, 2000 at 08:06:20:

In Reply to: rooftop antennas posted by petew on October 07, 2000 at 05:22:12:

Pixellating pictures? I've had my DirecTV dish up since 1/1/99; and the only time I experienced this problem was with an approaching rainstorm and resulting loss of signal strength. It's happened about 5 times since then.

A videophile acquaintance of mine does claim that DirecTV's delivery of more channels has resulted in visibly poorer resolution on his high-end HDTV set; but he never complained about pixellating. Were you watching sports when you saw this? Fast action requires higher bitrate, I believe.

Cable companies are going to a digital tier, which should cure some of the problems you're experiencing. This requires rebuild of the system with a fiberoptic to nodes, then coax to the house. Reduced length of the coax runs and elimination of long RF amplifier cascades should result in better analog signal quality, too. Of course, the quality of the digial signal is completely dependent upon the datarate the company chooses to feed you.

Your cable company is Suburban Cable? I think Comcast bought them out in Phila. suburbs.
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