On 3/6/2010 10:45 AM, Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>
>> Well, the shops have all this split-screen stuff, with one side in SD
>> and the other side in HD. The only difference I can see is that the HD
>> is very slightly less blurry. But it's a tiny difference - certainly not
>> worth paying £20,000 for.
>
> 20k£? Where do you shop? :O
>
Given what he describes happening with movement.. Some place where the 
TV people are being robbed blind by companies selling them bad 
compression, and the people delivering it the same. Or.. He has 
satellite. lol That is the thing they "don't" tell you with the whole, 
"satellites have more bandwidth" BS. First, its basically a lie. I get 
the same number of channels + high speed digital internet over my cable, 
so.. the idea there isn't bandwidth is just silly. So.. How do they get 
that extra "bandwidth" they claim? Simple... they compress the hell out 
of the signal, so much so that your HD signals look as bad as my 
**better** standard signals look "good". In other words - make up the 
space lost by sending you the signal, by sending you 10% less data in 
the signal, or what ever it is.

Mind, this is likely no the case with the re-broadcasts, since such 
signals still need to be used to transmit to the cable people, but those 
are **not** what you get from Direct TV, or the like. You are getting 
their version of DSL, while the signal to the cable company is more 
like.. T1. The only way to end up with "less" bandwidth is if the cable 
company decides to screw you too, with crappy compression, to give 
themselves more bandwidth than they need (which I don't doubt happens).

So, yeah.. What your picture looks like is going to vary, even if there 
isn't anything wrong with the TV at all. Its all dependent on if the 
people sending you the signal figure they can get by with it, or not.

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