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Hi all,
Ok, I'm slow. I just had digital cable installed today and, while the picture generally looks fine, on sports (particularly soccer with the big green field), it looks like the picture is blurry or pixelated when the camera is panning quickly. Almost like the picture's trying to catch up with the action. When the camera stops moving, the picture kind of reassembles itself and is clear and detailed. Never noticed this before with analog. It's pretty annoying, to say the least.Is this a cable/interconnect issue? Should I get a better cable from the wall to the cable box? It almost looks like there's not enough bandwidth for the whole image to come through at the right speed.
Please don't tell me that this is "just how it is"! There must be a way to fix this.
Thanks in advance,
RickMac
Follow Ups:
Someone forgot to tell people that digital cable is worse than analog.
Same thing is with DVD, they still do not match quality of good SVHS.
Also no one tells you that it takes 5 damn minutest to surf 50 channels on digital one by one.
Don't you just love digital?
I made some comments about Comcast digital cable above but I forgot to mention one of my biggest complaints....
The stupid set top box is required to change channels and it is as slow as melted cheese. You can hit the channel up / down button and wait up to a second for the picture to appear. Try doing that thru a zillion channels!At least with old analog cable, I can use my TV w/o the set top box and surf through the channels at lightning speeds.
Your digital channels are compressed when transmitted from the headend. When it gets to your Digital Consumer Terminal (DCT), the box will uncompress the signal and convert it back to analog before it reaches your TV set. I think this is how it works.
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I'm getting the feeling that the cable companies are trying to talk people into the idea that digital cable has a better picture than analog (just like the record companies did with cd's over vinyl), but my eyes are telling me the opposite, just like my ears did with music.There may be something wrong with my cable box or a connection somewhere, though. If everyone's Fox Sports World looks as bad as mine does, Comcast must be getting slammed with complaints. I can barely watch a soccer game without tired eyes and a headache.
Later,
RickMac
You might try cleaning all of the connections in the circuit. If the picture improves, then you moght consider a better cable.Good Luck... Paul
I'm not positive but I think you are seeing the effects of compression to achieve more unwanted channels instead of fewer high quality channels. This usually manifests itself on us satellite (DirecTV,DishNetwork) viewers but you may also be getting the shaft from the cable companies. It shows up in high speed sports the most, side views of race cars, tennis ball tracks, boxing punches, etc."The trouble with mass transit is the masses." It's quanitity not quality.
drobo
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