Posted by afiggatt on 12/09/05 19:53

Logical Anomaly's Ego wrote:

> I don't think a lot of people are even seeing accurate HD in
> stores...at least around my area they aren't.
>
> At a local Circuit City they had several HD TVs hooked up showing an
> NFL game and it looked no better or even worse than my TV at home that
> ISN'T HD. I HAVE seen a true HDTV and it will make you cry to look at
> your own picture, but if people haven't seen what it looks like, even
> in the store...they don't even know what they are comparing it to.

That is probably because CC was showing a DirecTV HD signal which is
often called HD-Lite. Because of limited bandwidth, DirecTV is notorious
for aggressively recompressing the HD signal which results in the blocky
picture you see for any fast motions on the demo hookups at CC. Made it
apparent to me that I should stick with HD cable for now.

Alan F

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