basic cable 9.95 for one year

[The Insider]

Bhn orlando has a promotion goin for basic cable only 9,95 for 12months perfect if you currently get channels via ota or a sat company who needs locals

[josem3]

Well, it is good deal if you live in apartments or places that you don't get a good TV signal or they won't let you to install OTA. Today, you are able to get the most of your digital local channels(2,6,9,18,24,27,35,43,45,52,55,56,65 plus the high def channels) with a good OTA for less than $100. I got it for my all four TV's three years ago.

[jcarrera]

As the cost of cable and sat has skyrocketed, I think you are going to see more and more people moving back to OTA ("back" applies if you are over, what 40? 50?).

Over here on the coast, though, I don't think you can get anywhere near that many channels, but I don't know.

What bugs me is that we get 1080p HDTVs, then have to feed them with reduced quality, compressed video coming out of the cable.

[Saxamoophone]

Nobody produces 1080p TV Shows though....

[The Insider]

Sax is correct you get very few 1080p broadcast programs. 1080p is mainly for blueray viewing.

[jcarrera]

OK guys. The point is that the TVs are capable of displaying greater clarity than the cable is giving them due to the compression.

[The Insider]

The cable, the OTA, the network, etc....

[jcarrera]

The cable, the OTA, the network, etc....

Don't understand your point.

When I said "cable", I meant "the signal that comes out of the wire at your house." I guess that includes both what BHN does to the data before/as it is injected onto the cable system and whatever its plant does to the injected signal between headend and the house. Of course, they cannot increase the technical quality of their source material, but they can and do degrade it.

Not pertinent here, but that last statement is not exactly correct. DSP can be done to video to "improve" it in some circumstances.

[The Insider]

what we are saying is there are no 1080p broadcasts that are are missing. the source bhn gets is not 1080p for the majority of their programming. the same is true for dish direc etc. currently the only 1080p are a few select ondemand programs. makes no sense to free up the space for 1080p when there is next to no programming for it. maybe in the near future sure but right now its not the cables fault their is no 1080p programs or channels

[The Insider]

also note bhns hd signals are sent at the best possible rate. they arrive dam near ota quality. ithey do not compress more then 2 hd channels per 6mhz slot which gives each channel over 20mbs of bandwidth