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RE: LCD and non-HD cable...

Posted by Cosmic Closet on November 3, 2008 at 09:01:38:

I hope one can ascribe some of the awfulness of some of the HD signal delivery to 'transition problems' because otherwise it's going to get rather sad.

PBS (in DC) is all over the place when it comes to HD feeds. The amount of blocking going on in the image stream (particularly during dissolves and such) makes the feed look like it was mastered from an HDV tape or a similar prosumer format. I am more than willing to blame the cable companies as well in their quest for squeezing more garbage channels into the spectrum, at the expense of bandwidth for the 'main players.'

As for SD, it can still look good when the signal is clean. A bit veiled, with the predictable color 'schmear', but certainly watchable.
The ones who will really have to step up the game are some of the independent channels (who ironically have some of the best programming.)
The 'dubbed VHS from a bad satellite feed' look really hurts now, no matter how good the show.

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