That was true but the masses didn't care. Look at C band, it's way better than any DBS pizza service for picture quality and no rain fade, but the masses didn't care. They ordered over compressed SD and HD lite pizza.
There are so many formats that that have come and gone. The latest and greatest way to get more money out of the consumer lots of times are flop's. If they allowed consumer HD to be transmitted without the massive compression they use there would be no need for 3D TV. If most saw a non bitstarved backhaul feed they would see that eye poping eye candy effect without any stupid glasses or gimmicks. Instead these yahoo's come up with some gimmick that most won't participate in and expect it to become the norm. There's a sucker born every minute.