Recent content by MyDogHasFleas

The whole ESPN/ABC network is the worst of any for HD sports picture quality, to the point where it's noticeably bad. You don't even have to do an A/B side-by-side. When you see a little cloud of pixels following fast moving players around, when you see blurry images, you know someone's not...

Huh? What is "USA" and what article are you talking about? You mean USA Today, the McDonald's of newspapers? Never read that.

Let me start by saying I am not a sat sub now (still on Cable waiting to make the jump). Based on what I see happening in the last 12 months with Dish and Direct, I think it's quite clear that Dish is going for the low end market who wants something a few dollars cheaper and doesn't care so...

Bull. Name one movie they've shown in HD. All they are doing is stretching an SD version of the movie. I think you're being fooled because they are doing the thing where they stretch the edges more than the middle, now.

Yes. That is a definition of bitrate. And? Why are we at this starting point? Is there something you wish us to respond to here? I am guessing, because you highlighted the part about higher bitrate = higher picture resolution, that your point is that it somehow supports your original...

I am currently a cable customer looking to switch to Dish or DirecTV or maybe UVerse (but probably not). The Dish HD package looks great -- EXCEPT it's missing some key channels that I watch. If it had these I'd probably jump, because it's cheap enough that I could keep it even if I didn't...

This reminds me of the Wesley Snipes trial that's going on now, specifically the detailed, lengthy rants "proving" that the IRS is illegal, no one really owes any taxes, etc. Well, at least you can't go to jail for doing what hidefjeff is doing.

But you have to be a AAA member? I don't need that.

LOL @ time zone mixup "Since Las Vegas is in Nevada and not Arizona" ... :) :)

So, let me see if I've got this straight: Adding an external USB hard drive to a ViP211 has been announced. (Availability date?) With the drive, a ViP211 has full DVR functionality. The fee is $40 one time charge per household. (So if you have a ViP211 and a ViP622/722, and you want...

Topic 1: Blue = Blu-Ray = Democratic Red = HD-DVD = Republican Topic 2: Purple = Neutral? More like Bi. Swings both ways. Makes my engineering heart groan. There is no technical reason on earth to have two. Calling it Neutral makes is sound "nice and good", like "network...

obviously I'm a complete newcomer here... but why the heck do they call it BD for Blu-Ray Disc? That is completely non-intuitive. I had to look it up. It should be BRD.

Well, that sucks for me. I was actually considering getting D* even though it's more expensive. But... HBO, ESPN, TNT, and HDNet are the HD channels I watch most! agggg... any plans to convert these to MPEG4?

Maybe someone wanted to take Tuesday off?

Wow. This made me laugh out loud, I'll give you that. Some posters will stretch a LOOOONG way to make something a D* vs. E* debate.