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HD Broadcasts. Anyone seen artifact free content?
by Borjis
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Jun 6, 2005 at 4:42:48 pm |
I've been shopping around looking for a CRT based
HDTV set and one of the things I've noted on the displays is
very prominent and awful compression artifacts from the broadcasts.
2 places in particular:
Sears:
I was just there saturday. They were playing off of
an HD Dish reciever. some of the bumper graphic content
was crisp, but it still had some compression artifacts.
There were also artifacts around all the various station bugs in the right corner.
They showed a drag race for a few minutes and everytime there
was a fast pan the screen looked like a jumble of compression
mess, with colored pixels flying everywhere. it was ghastly!
WAY worse than badly shot HDV!
Fry's Electronics:
Now this is where I was surprised at first because they
were showing broadcast content from Cuban's HDNET.
I thought surely this will be the best quality of any
HD channel. Wrong! again compression artifacts
on the edges of details and any movement made it 3x
worse looking.
Now the one thing I have not seen is ATSC recieving
of the major networks. Does that look any better?
Is that why CBS refuses to allow comcast to
crunch their pristine signal down to ugliness like the others?
I realize part of the problem is trying to jam all
that content down a 20mbps transport stream and thats
no easy task, but is it going to get better from here on
anytime soon?
The entire experience was a let down IMO.
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