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Hi,I am wondering if any other Dish Network users have experienced better picture and sound quality since yesterday?
Dish Network have reorganized the Sirius/XM channel order, and I am noticing better sound and picture quality over all, most especially in high definition content. As a Dish Network subscriber for more than twelve years, I've noticed a gradual deterioration of picture and sound quality over the past few years and of late its been pretty poor. I can only assume that this is the result of increasing the rate of compression. I've been giving serious consideration to the fiber-optic-based Verizon FIOS solution. Correct me if I'm wrong but is it true that Verizon doesn't have to resort to heavy compression due to far greater bandwidth of fiber optic technology? I am glad to see an improvement in Dish PQ and sound since yesterday, but I have to wonder if it's going to last or are they going to start compressing the heck out of everything again?
Any thoughts?
Best,
O'Shag
United States of America - Land of the Free, Home of the Brave
Edits: 05/05/11Follow Ups:
Has anyone had experience with this? Apparently in Ontario it provides 32 free channels, including american channels WITH the American super Bowl commercials. If the PQ is better as well, I'm all over it.
Yes it's true, see digitalhome for probably the best info in North America. Some would like to shout it from the rooftops. Others wish they wouldn't as you-know-who makes no $$$ from it and there is already a backlash starting, since the same outfits effectively make the laws by manipulating the CRTC, etc. It is the law that American broadcasters provide "free" HDTV. Not so in Canada.
Picture quality on Dish Network is way better than what we were getting on cable.
Of course I can't do a side - by - side comparison of the Comcast Xfinity digital cable service I had in New Hampshire with Dish Network here in Connecticut, but I can say that Dish's picture appears significantly better than what I remember seeing on cable. The price is better than Comcast too. One downside is that the selection and organization of Dish's on - demand service (which is really streaming video over the internet) is greatly inferior to Comcast on demand.
The Sirius/XM channel reorder was done by Sirius/XM, not Dish Network (my car radio was reordered, too). I dont think DN did anything different.
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