Digital Cable pixelation on sports and action? Help!...

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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

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Topic - Digital Cable pixelation on sports and action? Help!... - RickMac 11:30:40 08/01/03 (8)

Hah, welcome to digital - SysInfo 19:37:08 08/03/03 (5)

So true! - AbeCollins 12:10:18 08/04/03 (1)

Re: So true! - CPL 23:43:00 08/05/03 (0)

I shoulda known. It's just like cd's and vinyl, huh? Analog's better. <nt> - RickMac 07:13:02 08/04/03 (2)

And by that you mean...? <nt> - John 09:33:51 08/07/03 (1)

I generally prefer vinyl over digital music. - RickMac 23:26:38 08/07/03 (0)

This can also be caused by a weak signal... - Paul in Sterling 21:23:20 08/02/03 (0)

The evil compression - drobo 13:03:44 08/01/03 (0)

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