[mythtv-users] Better Satellite Service in the US

[jedi]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:45:41PM -0700, Steve Heistand wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:26:12 Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > 
> > > I have this exact same solution (except I have DirecTV and not DISH)
> > > in place and honestly, I'm quite happy with the quality of S-Video
> > > from the HD Satellite boxes and enjoy not having to have massive
> > > frontends to display the big pretty SD quality content. It's in a nice
> > > wide-screen format that I would say is somewhere between DVD quality
> > > and the crappy quality I was getting out of the SD Satellite boxes.
> > > Oh, and this SD quality is much better than the quality my friend gets
> > > from his HD Comcast DVR connected directly to his huge Plasma display.
> > 
> > Yeah, the HD I have seen from cable is not too great. My local cable company 
> > advertises that you do not want satellite because the signals 
> > are "aggressively processed".
> > 
> > The implication is that the cable signals are not so processed, but from what 
> > I've seen CATV HD is even more mangled. I guess they are safe, because it 
> > would be hard to get a precise legal definition of "aggressively".
> 
> my old comcast HD was terrible, both directv and comcast are "processed" but directv
> uses a much better algorithm in keep the quality up there. comcast however
> doesnt and looks crappy.

All Hail h264!

I find it somewhat ironic that I as a directv subscriber will be taking
an h264 sat signal just so I can convert it back into analog just so I
can convert it back into h264 again.

I am hoping this version works better than this process does for directv's
SD channels.