Posted by Goro on 12/09/05 19:01

Logical Anomaly's Ego wrote:
> I hate comcast enough to wonder if they don't already screw with people
> like this. I haven't taken the HD leap yet, and I would have to do it
> with Comcast...ugh. Are there any differences between over the air HD
> (which I couldn't get anyway), HD over cable and HD over satelite?

My parents have Comcast and I have Cox. We both use analog cable and
just watch the unscrambled HD. I get all the HD channels via analog
cable and my QAM tuner. My reception for OTA using an antenna is just
terrible (i get 2 channels). The HD channels I get are : ABC, Fox, WB,
CBS, PBS, UPN, NBC.

My parents get three channels via QAM (i forget which ones) and they
get all the rest via OTA via rooftop antenna.

My cable bill is $49 for Mbps and cable tv. I just recently upgraded
to 9Mbps but haven't got ht ebill yet (it's +$15 so it should be around
$65 or so). My parents get 6 Mbps + cable and they pay around $80. My
Dad LOVES PBS-HD (as do i) and he really wants Discovery HD and so he
might pay the extra to get digital + cablecard. I'm not quite sure how
much that is, but i believe the cablecard itself is about $3/month.
It'll likely be about $100/month.

> I've noticed a lot of times the Best Buys and Circuit Cities have HD
> hookedup, supposedly, and it looks like a regular signal. I've seen
> true HDTV so I know the difference, but there are LOTS of time they say
> you are looking at an HDTV picture and it doesn't look like the pure
> HDTV I've seen. That may be because they have the signal split too
> many times? Or just clueless?

I went to my local BB and checked out some of the LCDs. I noticed one
side of the aisle had tvs that looked considerably better thanthe
other. When i checked the connection, the "good" side used component
cables (HD, but not HDMI), while the bad side used COAX!! No wonder it
was all noisy and ugly and stuff.

-goro-

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