Many of the channels still look bad on ANYTHING. I have Dish, and I was shocked when I realized how much compression was being used on some channels. I live right in the city, which has good reception for about 12 local channels... So I can reluctantly use an antenna (which is ridiculous) to get the locals on-air, and have better PQ. But what really gets me, is that they use high compression on popular channels that are not locals as well... SciFi, Spike and others... I can actually see the frame rate start dropping in low light scenes on SciFi. I'm not using anything fancy for monitors, so I can imagine how the people with the big buck sets feel. They don't even bother cranking up the bandwidth on big 3 network sporting events, which are typically using the best capture technology, producing excellent images... Then it all gets filtered through the provider and turned into a quicktime movie.

It's kind of upsetting when you think of all the technology that's happening now days, and in the end, you get a worse picture then was available 20 years ago. Supposedly they're putting up another sat in a couple months... But they'll probably just use the extra bandwidth for more shopping channels. They claim they did a poll, asking people which would they rather have... Better picture, or more channels. Apparently most people have poor vision, because they all asked for more channels.

Dave