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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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Directv is really behind the 8 ball on HDTV, I had the 5-lnb dish and the H20-600 receiver installed in march. The H20-600 ran very hot and the picture looked like crap. Also had huge audio/video sync issues. I called DTV for 2 months and was lied to on every call.Finally called the special customer service line in the office of the president and got a replacement H2--100 which has better picture and no lip sync issues. I will post that number when I get home to look it up.
Discovery HD , HDnet and HDnet movies pay for a 19GHZ BANDWITH and do look great.
DTV claims they will launch two new sattelite in 2007 that will result in 150+ hd channels...
Would love to know that number. I have the same box...with the same heat problem...the same sync problem...but get this...every day...started slow and increased...the picture suddenly goes to snow and I hear a loud noise that sounds like a tape fast forwarding. You have to reset the unit. Eventually it just powers on for 3 seconds and keeps cycling through formats and power cycle on and off and on and off. It lasted less than a year and they get you stuck under their contract. Like you said...lies, lies, and more lies. They came out to install my 5 lnb supposedly some 3 times. I was here every time and never saw a soul. The installer would call and tell them I was out of town at 5am before the installer even left his house. So I would love to have that phone number.
I just ordered a new TV to get HD for football and baseball. But more and more I'm reading about how little real HD there is out there, and now I finally get it... the only true HD is the HD "commercial", that is, the bug and flower shows, and that five-minute chunk of a North Carolina football game I used to see at Harvey's. Just like SACD! Oh well, at least the screen is bigger. I guess I'll never live to see HD as the standard for all TV shows, or high def as the standard for all audio, either. They're interesting when company comes over (look what I've got), but there isn't enough of it to involve yourself on a regular basis.
While true HD still seems to be mostly hype, the enhanced def promoted by the networks as HD does make regular programming much more viewable on a big screen tv. Much SD fare looks horrible when expanded to a big screen, its almost unwatchable.However, many cable programs on non-HD channels appear almost as good as HD for reasons I don't understand. Perhaps digital broadcast of SD permits better res than analog?
Still, there needs to be far more HD programming. At least Football season is coming up pretty soon.
It's like MP3's and SACD. Most people want quantity, not quality. Remember DirecTV is "100% digital quality". It's digital, so it's good! Remember that. :)The goal for digital media is to cram as much information in as little space as possible and do it so it's cheap. I really don't know the wisdom of taking away analog broadcast signals. Where I live, I can barely get an analog TV signal from SF on my over-the-air antenna. When they switch to digital transmission, an "all or nothing" reception, I will certainly get nothing.
You also notice we don't all have 30ips reel-to-reel decks for our music systems or IMAX film projectors for our home theaters, either. But those systems wouldn't be "digital quality".
Somewhere around half (depending on the day) of broadcast evening shows are HD. Cable is pretty spotty. If you haven't already, get yourself an upscaling DVD player.
Jack
the free to air channel networks all have HD transmissions as well as SD.What you get depends on what the station obtained the program in. I tend not to watch all that much TV programming but the ABC, our national broadcaster, transmits quite a few programs in 1280 x 720 progressive scan and the quality is extremely good. Most of the high definition stuff I've watched on the ABC has been in that format. The ABC shows a lot of British BBC material and that seems to be almost routinely in 720p and high quality.
The commercial networks are a mixed bag with some stuff in 1080i, some in 720p, and some in standard definition. There seems a lot more variation in the formats they transmit than what I've seen on the ABC.
Of course, there's no value in having a high quality picture if the program itself is not to your taste.
David Aiken
Somewhere around half (maybe more) of the network TV in the 8-11PM time frame is broadcast in HD, plus sports, but that may depend on the area and whether or not the stations have updated their broadcasting. I watch very little of it, because as you've noticed, it doesn't improve the content any. I think CBS and NBC are 1080i, anf Fox and ABC are 720p.
Jack
There must be a lot of compression and little consistency in the way the major networks distribute HD signals because I have yet to see a major network HD production that looks like HD. Its not even DVD (480i) image quality. The only true HD on ABC-NBC-CBS seems to be the local news. I wonder how long will it be before content catches up with the capability?
Only CBS in the DC area broadcasts local news in HD. I watched CSI last night, and it looked OK in HD, but not as good as local news. It will be a few years before the networks get serious about HD, there just isn't enough HD TVs out there yet .
Jack
Fox does not broadcast in true hi def, except for the All Star and World Series games. They use 480p in a wide format, uocinverted from 480i. I have written to them about it but never received a response.
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In general, HD picture quality varies considerably from exquisite to terrible. You've probably recognized thet most content on HD channels isn't HD. On the major networks, I don't think they do any true HD at optimimum res. It looks better than Std Def, but the occasional true HD program instantly shows how much potential quality is ignored. The true HD features on Discovery or PBS are stunning and stand out dramatically over the routine "psuedo HD" stuff. The colors are more impressive than the sharpness. You never realize how color-limited SDTV is 'til you see true HDTV. The problem is that its virtually all nature and travel stuff. For all their HD glory, one grows weary of watching bugs, fish, and the Tomato-throwing Fiesta in Spain.I know that providers often compress the HD content to preserve bandwidth, at least partially defeating the whole notion of hi def. It also seems to me that digital television handle neither contrast or low level lighting well at all. Not good considering how low level lighting has become standard fare in most "drama" shows. So the cave-dwellers of "24" and "CSI" are almost always murky and blotchy viewed in HD . The best HD stuff is always that which was well and evenly illuminated.
The TV industry seems to be largely ignoring HD as a specific vehicel and is just stuffing the same crap into the HD pipe. IMO, they only intend use HD to make Std Def more viewable on large screens. Beyond that, HD's promise is still hype. Except for sports, I'd wouldn't advise anyone to buy an HDTV for the programming. Its got a long, long way to go.
Are you sure you are watching HD from the locals, or just upscaled SD on the digital channels? What shows? Is it coming from Direct TV? If so, is it really giving you HD? Does your TV have an internal Digital tuner? If so, you can try getting the locals OTA. Network HD can look pretty good.
Jack
I'm using the Direct TV feed and all channels look great except CBS. I think the problem is on thier end.
The only HD CBS I watch is the local newscast, and it IS HD. It looks quite good, so perhaps its a regional thing. I found OTA HD looks better than Cable HD in my area. The problem is, most material on HD channels isn't HD, just SD upscaled and broadcast in 1080i or 720p.
Jack
On my Panasonic plasma HDTV, CSI:Miami is the best looking image I've seen to date (on CBS HD) - I use Comcast.
Well, the DirecTV box indicates its an HD channel and the network advertises it as an HD channel, so I assume it's not SD. The installer said those are HD channels. It's not from an over-the-air antenna, it's from DirecTV's satellite. I have seen one pretty good HD transmission from the NBC channel I get, and it looked like HD. So I assume it can be done, but so often they're not sending a very good HD transmission or the source is just low rez. I don't know for sure where it's coming from, but I assume its just the poor source.Kurt
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