Recent content by chrisw27

KTVU looks great? Yeah, their newsroom and graphics are fine but everything else looks like a bad 16x9 480i signal. Haven't seen ABC yet. Curious, which news channel does everyone watch here? regardless of HD or not.

I have Comcast and all their HD channels are at native resolutions (either 1920x1080 or 1280x720) and it stays at a high bitrate (I checked with my TV). HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Cinemax look very nice, no ghosting at all, as well as the rest of the HD channels. Local HD channels are very close...

Well here's your answer. Do you want HD or HD-Lite? Also, cable is still using MPEG2.

Not only will it look worse on your locals, there's also about a 7-10 second delay + re-compression with the sound vs OTA. If you can, I would recommend getting the best of both worlds. Connect the antenna to the Dish HD receiver.

E* has VOOM channels, "Congratulations! You have a Dish 500" and a "Congratulations! You have a dish 1000" channel. D* has ugly dishes. Off topic, but on huge ugly dishes.. Can you lay and fall asleep on the dish without blocking reception?

Who needs high bitrate DVDs when you have 128kbps iTunes AAC files? The future is low bitrates! Pretty soon we can fit 1,000,000 albums in our pocket. No one will care how good it sounds, as long as you know who's playing or singing :)

Count me in too!

The audio sync issue is on the station's side and appears on all HD feeds, including OTA and cable. I've tested it myself.

and of course, 99% of the people watching would have no idea what the hell Blu-Ray is ;)

My city has poor cabling, so I only get a few channels.. I don't get INHD, INHD2, and a couple HD locals. They should just convert all the analog channels here to digital already.. I don't know whats taking them so long. It would solve all of the bandwidth issues and we would get so much more...

I'm going to miss that channel after switching back to Comcast.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? :D

Well, I was comparing my HD local Comcast feed with the HD local Satellite feed. E*'s was delayed 10 seconds, I was shocked. Looks like I'm going to use cable for my locals. Also, the HD E* feed sounded more raspy/thinner like it was re-encoded from the original sound format. Even the SD local...

Okay so I want to move my VIP211 to a TV where its receiving a feed from a 522 via cable (2nd tuner). How do I switch the cable in that room to receive the feed from the satellite instead of the 522 receiver? I hope I don't have to get a tech to come out here and pay $99.

That would be interesting. Another HD channel to the lineup would slowly kill the competition. First I would like to see the TV Guide Channel in HD, and the "Congratulations! You've Got a Dish 500" channel in HD. Also, maybe the knife show in HD. :D