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I finally have HDTV! But what's up with the poor quality HD signals out there?

I have had the DirecTV HD for awhile now and have been evaluating the field of channels and programs I receive with it. I watch the Discovery HD Theater channel and it's amazing quality. I watch a live baseball game on a Fox Sports Net channel and it's amazing. But when I go to see a live baseball game on the local San Francisco Fox affiliate channel 2's HD picture, there's much lower resolution and even a ton of noise all over the screen.

I can't believe it's the satellite receiver. It looks like a transmission problem. Do they just have junk HD equipment to transmit from? Some camera angles consistently put out a worse transmission than other cameras in the same game, I noticed. Other networks have put out some pretty bad looking HD programming, too. I have a new Panasonic 37" plasma to view all this. Will these networks get their transmissions improved or do they just think that 16:9 widescreen is all considered HD to them? Thanks for any comments.

Kurt


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Topic - I finally have HDTV! But what's up with the poor quality HD signals out there? - kurt s 08:00:05 08/09/06 (20)


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