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I spent last Saturday on the roof with the guy helping him install Direct tv and I am very disappointed. I should have checked here first. I have been with verizon for my phone and internet so I decided to try their all in one package with Direct tv. The high def channels are just about satisfactory on a 32" Aquos but most of the standard channels suffer from terrible compression artifacts. I'm getting 80s for reception strength. Is there any hope of improvement or should I start the ball rolling on an uninstall. Has anyone else been through this to help me cut down on the number of phone calls it will take? Direct tv is dreaming if they think that they have any future with picture quality like that. The hype of what used to be decent quality will soon be overwhelmed with bad press about what they are transmitting now.
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As a matter of fact, I just had digital cable with HD DVR installed in my new home, and the standard def channels are absolute atrocities. I'm not surprised since this is what I expected, having lived with Dish Network and Direct also. They all stink to high heavens when it comes to their SDTV channels.It's not the fault of "standard def" per se, either. When I had a rooftop HD antenna, all the off-air standard def digital channels looked about 10 times better than same channels via satelite.
Oh, yeah, the install didn't go smoothly, either, again. This was their second attempt at wasting my time, and even though the cable did get set up the second time, they brought me the wrong cable box. I am awaiting a third visit, hopefully this time with the right box.
Oh, how I miss my rooftop HD antenna. Too bad I had to move to a poor reception area :(
I was an early adopter of over the air HDTV with HD tuner and outdoor UHF antenna. It worked great considering Denver is one of the last to go HD. In fact, our broadcast towers are still to this day, low power and on top of high rise buildings in Denver. They plan to move to Lookout Mountain in about a year now that the City of Golden was FINALLY FORCED to allow the new HD tower on their mountain top. What a joke... that fiasco lasted a few years until it was FINALLY resolved in the best interest of the majority.In any case, I am presently on Comcast cable with a Motorola HD DVR. The HD picture and sound are still incredible but I have to agree that the standard analog channels look bad compared to viewing them over the air.
Currently Time Warner Cable with Moxi (by Motorolla) HD DVR. About similar SD and HD PQ compared to my last DISH 811 HD receiver I would say.The darn installers do not know what they're doing. They brought me a universal remote that does not control Moxi completely, and many functions such as power on/off, "Guide" don't work! They were supposed to bring me a Moxi Remote.
Anyway, I'm going to change everything to the latest Motorolla 8300 HD DVR next week and hope SD looks a bit better (doubt it).
I had the same problems with DTV, the scifi channel had the worst compression artifacts making it almost unwatchable, in fact the commercials seemed to have had better quality than the actual programs. After hearing all their excuses, blah blah blah...I got fed up and switched to cable (the other crooks), at least their quality was better and I didn't have to pay extra for the HI-Def channels. I don't see any solution to the highly compressed transmissions, unless some new type of compression with higher quality for the same bandwidth gets invented. But then they would probably try to squeeze more channels in the same space.
It's not DTV, something's wrong with your installation/setup. We've used DTV for years, and the video qualtiy has been fine even with SDTV. Our weakest channel has been local ABC -- they block access to ABC West in Santa Barbara, presumably so they can count us among their viewers in setting ad rates. HDTV is spectacular.db
How long have you had your receivers because something has changed recently and the video bit rate is terrible on many stations.
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