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is it me or are the hi-def feed on cable terrible?
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Post 1 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:23
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ok title says it all..

last night i was watching nfl network for the preseason game... how can you not read a jersey name on a 106" screen in hi def?

watching the cubs game now on mlb hi def and its again a crap image.

image quality is terrible. yeah it seems better on a 50" or a 42" but not crisp or good at all.

and the crowd looks like max headrooms...

we have spectrum aka bright house aka suckage!!!
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Post 2 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:28
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Welcome to the wonderful world of compression.
OP | Post 3 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:29
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On August 18, 2017 at 15:28, P2P said...
Welcome to the wonderful world of compression.

i remeber hi def feeds being so crisp and wonderful... this sucks...

yeah i know its compressed but this is just terrible
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OP | Post 4 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:32
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are the satellite providers any better or is it just the same crap everywhere...
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Post 5 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:42
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And my co workers at Comcast wondered why I did not install their “amazing” X1 with free HD channels and full line up. But kept my Dish Network set up instead.

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Post 6 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 15:43
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I've always been happy with DirecTV picture quality.

My guess is that cable gets more and more compressed due to sharing their wiring with the internet services that need to get faster and faster.
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Post 7 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 16:04
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I have found that the picture quality I get from HBO Now via my Roku is better than watching the same content on HBO via Comcast.
Post 8 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 17:29
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Are they pushing HD compression higher so they can start a 4K cable tier (that they charge more for!) so that if you want a HD picture you have to pay for the 4K tier?
Post 9 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 17:33
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My DirecTV image is light years better than my Comcast image.
Post 10 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 18:16
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I actually just remmeber that live sports will never be higher than 720(not sure P or I). Because anything higher will take too much bandwidth.

This was told by the Comcast instructor during training.

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Post 11 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 20:21
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I never had a complaint with Dish Network picture quality. It was always better looking than Comcast. I dropped pay TV a year ago and haven't looked back. Streaming from my AppleTV (iTunes, Netflix, Showtime, HBO, etc) provides better picture quality than any cable/satellite broadcast as is the picture through my OTA antenna.
Post 12 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 22:08
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On August 18, 2017 at 17:33, P2P said...
My DirecTV image is light years better than my Comcast image.

I recall my Comcast HD was on par with DTV when I used TiVo. I have not lived with X1 so I can't give a good comparison, but the standard Comcast standard HD boxes were very unimpressive.
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Post 13 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 22:25
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It comes down to area and how many times that Comcast line is "tapped"

I have some customers that looks like it's a SD channel upconverted to HD and others that look really really good. My house looks really nice actually after I moved from DTV to Comcast. I had an overlap in service and I compared the same channel back and forth and couldn't see a difference. But that's my house and I think it's because I only share the Comcast feed with 6 other houses. Clients in the city and some suburbs looks just awful.

FIOS IMO has the best picture quality. The boxes and GUI look like it's from 1990 but the PQ is the best, for obvious reasons. On the subject of X1 it's finally been polished. It's a really really nice system and I think the GUI is the best in the business. I had to install a paperweight of a tivo the other day and that is really showing it's age. It probably has more todo with the engineers busy designing the GUIs for comcast. TIVo needs to just go to the wayside, it's garbage compared to X1-DTV and Dish!
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Post 14 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 22:30
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X1 at my house and picture quality is great. Even if DirecTV or DISH were better i still wouldn't switch because of the X1 interface.
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Post 15 made on Friday August 18, 2017 at 23:27
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In my experience some of the older settop boxes don't yield first class video. Also, I suspect that Comcast tinkers with the compression ratio depending on the popularity of a feed. Thinly watched channels will be more highly compressed in order to make room for the popular stuff. Movie channels are consistently better than obscure stuff and the movie channels have more consistent lip sync.

Finally, there is still a mixture of SD and HD channels. Some channels have both SD and HD feeds. If you are not paying attention, you might be watching the SD version. The latest boxes allow one to automatically switch to the HD version, if available.
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