Recent content by Mike Greer

Where are you? Someone from your Comcast market will have to answer for your situation. In Salt Lake the HD picture quality is as good as it gets - Comcast in Salt Lake passes the MPEG video unmolested. Dish Network and DirecTV have been lowering the PQ to make room for more light-weight...

You have just happened onto my biggest bitch.... 100% Digital Quality means 100% nothing. Digital doesn't mean better or even good... It just depends on how it is used. In the world of digital TV, with maybe with the exception of HD, 'Digital' means the picture looks like what you are...

Thanks Dave - I'm always curious when someone says their picture is improved by installing devices like these. I just don't see the science behind these. Its like the $400 power cords you buy for high end audio... Putting a surge protector on your satellite feeds simply just can't...

What? Please give us some details of before and after....

In Salt Lake DirecTV over-compresses 14 channels so they will fit on one transponder. I'll never be able to see if the local broadcasters are sending crap to DirecTV because DirecTV isn't going to add more bandwidth to a small market like Salt Lake. I guess we'll never know!

Wow, that's a new one. Why is this? Are you saying that my nasty DirecTV locals are not because DirecTV is cramming them all on one transponder? The real reason is that the all my local TV stations got together to screw DirecTV for some reason? Why do my local broadcasters like Comcast...

What? Can I have alittle of what you're smoking? Please :D

My analog channels from Comcast are better than the 100% Digital quality local channels I receive from DirecTV by far. I can't watch the Salt Lake locals from DirecTV on my big screen TV's... I can only stand it on the 14" TV I have in my office (mostly because I don't look at it!). The...

How so? I have Comcast and DirecTV and used to have Dish Network. If I had to choose only one them it would be Comcast. That's not to say they don't have problems but they all do. I would choose Comcast because I can get more HDTV from Comcast and its real HD not the dumbed down so...

I wouldn't worry much about Dish switching to MPEG4 and obsoleting their current HD receivers... It will be years before Dish can pull something like that off. Look at the 921 as a good example... Wasn't it nearly 3 years from the time they announced the 921 to when people could actually...

I agree that Comcast would have made her pay (as they should)... But you're not suggesting that if the situation was reversed that Dish Network would have credited her account the $383.63 are you? After my dealings with Dish Network I can't imagine they would do anything more than tell her she...

When I made the switch to Comcast - and received a discount because I gave them my receiver - they made it very clear what the deal was. Both in the form that I signed and verbally (over the phone when I ordered and at installation) they made sure that I owned the equipment and that I...

I'm not sure I'd say that the 921 was first to the market... I realize that technically the first 921 was shipped before the first HD Tivo but... I was on one waiting list for the the 921 for nearly a year, a second list for about 5 months before I gave up and switched to DirecTV and the HD...

The HD Tivo has had and still does have some problems - mostly with HDMI port failure and some issues with Dolby Digital and certain receivers. But - anyone that doesn't work for Dish Network, has used both the 921 and the HD Tivo and then says the 921 is more advanced is delirious! :D...

What advantage does the 921 have over the HD Tivo? The only reason I would have gone with the 921 is because Dish had better HDTV picture quality. Now they have watered down the PQ I can't think of why I would want one. Possible 921 advantages: +Speed - HD Tivo is too damn slow +UHF...